Des Plaines
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How many inspections are too many?Nov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - While municipal inspectors are vital to ensuring that a newly built home is safe and solid, no standard exists to determine how many are needed to handle a major buildin...
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Streamwood cops seek armed robberNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Streamwood police are looking for a man who held up a local gas station Wednesday night. According to police reports, a male in his 40s walked into the Citgo gas station...
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Two bodies found at suburban construction siteNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Construction crews paving a bike path found the bodies of two adult men wrapped and bound near Lemont (Map) this morning. "The bodies were found just a short ...
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Elk Grove students put their all into SmokeoutNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - On the eve of the 31st Great American Smokeout, students from Elk Grove High School campaigned Wednesday night to get people to sign a no-smoking pledge. Hanna Wiesmayer...
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Briefs: ISCO International inks merger dealNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - ELK GROVE VILLAGE -- ISCO International Inc., a provider of radio-frequency management and interference-control systems for the wireless telecommunications industry, and...
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Are overscheduled building inspections putting homes at risk?Nov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - First of two parts To the west: In a new townhouse complex at the edge of prairies, a man wakes to the sound of rain sprinkling down in the next bedroom. Next door,...
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Drive set to help victims of fires in CaliforniaNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Operation ROAR, a disaster relief service operated by a number of area Lions Clubs, but founded by the Mount Prospect Lions Club, will collect items this weekend to help...
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Neighbor SportsNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Basketball Hersey Feeder tryouts: Hersey Feeder Basketball tryouts for boys in sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grades will be held at the following times on both Dec. 15 and...
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Tour of Elk Grove winner fails drug test, stripped of titleNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Australian cyclist Nathan O'Neill admits he took a prescription diet drug but denies it propelled him to victory at the Tour of Elk Grove. Still, the 32-year-old has bee...
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Culligan flows with the timesNov 14, 2007 10:00 pm - Hey Culligan man, you changed. Just weeks at its new headquarters in Rosemont, Culligan International Co.'s state-of-the-art laboratories are operational, bot...