Arlington Heights
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Cook Co. moves closer to having an independent inspector generalJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - It took a few years, but Cook County Board President Todd Stroger Thursday took a major step toward making good on his central campaign platform: installing an independe...
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Fire damages two homes in BartlettJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Residents had to flee as fire damaged two townhouses at 474 and 476 E. Railroad Ave. Thursday in Bartlett. Lt. Dana Costa Rica of the Bartlett Fire Department said the h...
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Government lacks fiscal restraintJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - "Fiscal restraint" is a dirty phrase in Cook County, Springfield and Washington D.C. these days. The sheer amount of waste, and the lack of remorse for it, is staggering...
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Hemingway to help headline alternative health expoJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - More than 150 exhibitors and 70 speakers -- including actress Mariel Hemingway and relationship author John Gray -- will be on hand for the fourth annual Chicago Health ...
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Briefs: Pub preps for re-openingJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Ye Olde Town Inn in Mount Prospect will reopen partially at 3 p.m. today, offering hotdogs and beer with the expectation to fully open next month. The restaurant side of...
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Arlington Heights library staff creating 'Reading Railroad'Jun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - For the last month, staff members with the Arlington Heights Memorial Library have gone from their day jobs to moonlighting on a 28-foot steam locomotive. Not exactly r...
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Flooding postpones bike trail completionJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Flooding along the Des Plaines River last year and this spring has pushed back plans for the riverside bicycle trail. A ribbon cutting had been scheduled for this month ...
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Cook settles attack lawsuitJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - An elderly stroke victim and Cook County have settled a lawsuit stemming from an attack on the man by Stroger Hospital security officers. In the lawsuit, 78-year-old Agu...
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"Dean of shopping centers" ran Randhurst, PatisserieJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - When Harold Carlson was asked in the early 1960s to manage Randhurst Mall in Mount Prospect, it was the largest indoor mall in the country, but mall management as an pro...
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U-46 earns top quality management honorJun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Elgin Area School District U-46 earned a top honor this week, receiving quality management certification from the International Organization for Standardization. Accordi...