Burlington
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Annual festival a Dickens of a good time in the DundeesDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - While last year's Dickens in Dundee festival was almost sabotaged by a foot of snow, this year's festivities were able to avoid -- for the most part -- the first major s...
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Moving special-needs preschoolers still on options menu in District 300Dec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - An unpopular proposal to move special-needs preschoolers to make room for east-side kindergartners remains on the menu of options Community Unit District 300 administrat...
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Practice pays off for St. Edwards' Pozezinski in win over NazarethDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - After going just 1-for-4 at the free-throw line in the first half, St. Edward senior Megan Pozezinski spent the better part of the halftime break shooting free throws at...
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Leadership, not insults, needed at countyDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - The rhetoric of Cook County politics has never been particularly inspiring, but it reached Jerry Springer-like depths last week, as commissioners sought in vain ways to ...
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Postal stamp machines a thing of the past in ElginDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - If you planned on buying postage from the coin-operated stamp machine at the downtown Elgin post office, you'd better come up with a plan B. Officials removed that machi...
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U-46 teachers, board must get fair deal doneDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - That slight bubbling in the pit of longtime Elgin Area School District U-46 residents' stomachs isn't due to holiday excess. It's the knowledge that an unsettled distric...
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Honorable Bianchi the only choiceDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - Remember when there was decorum, decency, honesty and the ability to agree to disagree? When I grew up in a politically active family, it was a privilege to attend polit...
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Elgin author travels the world in search of antique German ornamentsDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - When you lovingly unwrap your grandmother's glass dove to hang on your Christmas tree, just think -- she could have left you a clown or a devil. And it would have been w...
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Dinner and a show at MitsuwaDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - Hundreds of people crowded Saturday into Mitsuwa Marketplace in Arlington Heights. The draw? A rare chance to see a fresh 400-pound bluefin tuna carved into sashimi. Cam...
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Local band makes jazz, funk academicDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - Improvisational jam/jazz/funk isn't a typical genre for a band made up of young college students. Then again, most suburban garage bands don't have multiple members taki...