Des Plaines
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What's on Fido's holiday wish list?Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - Bright red suit. Flowing white beard. Impish smile. Jolly laugh. No wonder Rusty was creeped out. The miniature pinscher did a double take on his first encounter with St...
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Stroger spokesman says he was callerDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - After much speculation about the identify of a radio show call-in who defended a 2 percent sales tax hike, the spokesman for Cook County Board President Todd Stroger -- ...
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High winds knock out power, damage trees in areaDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - High winds knocked out power and damaged tree limbs and branches in the Chicago area overnight. ComEd spokesman Joe Trost says 58,000 customers are still without power S...
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2007: A year of surprising twistsDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - In "The Wizard of Oz," farmhand Zeke, played by Bert Lahr, spots trouble on the horizon and shouts a warning. "It's a twister. It's a twister." Like a twister on an unev...
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Snow, cold doesn't stop 77-year-old bell ringerDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - Richard Sperling is used to the cold. He spent many years in and out of freezers, working as a butcher for independent grocery stores. So ringing a Salvation ...
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Platterpus Records finds fondness for vinyl onlineDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - When a photographer and musician met five years ago, they didn't expect something as common as vinyl would lead them into a business partnership. Peter Kuehl, 40, of Sch...
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Police: Schaumburg man assaulted child while armedDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - A Schaumburg man is in jail on a $1 million bond, accused of sexually assaulting a young female relative while armed with a firearm. Chad Lee Hardy, 33, 419 Selkirk Driv...
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Court documents suggest governor knew of fund schemesDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - For the first time since they began indicting members of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's inner circle, federal prosecutors alleged Friday that a witness says the governor intimat...
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Briefs: Jazz musicians win awardsDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - Five student musicians at Elgin Community College won Outstanding Musician Awards at the recent Skyway Jazz Festival at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights. The mus...
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Wrap: Wheeling, BG, Maine W., girls winDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - Ashley Wilson came into Friday only 11 points shy of 1,000 for her career, but she was too preoccupied trying to beat constant double- and triple-teams to notice. With h...