Des Plaines
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How No Child Left Behind changes could affect youOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Through all the frustrations of No Child Left Behind legislation -- test score ups and downs, failing grades for typically top-notch schools, cries that the expectations...
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Des Plaines begins talks on $120 million budgetOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Des Plaines aldermen Monday night debated new positions, how much to spend on special events and overtime costs as they took their first crack at a proposed $120.3 milli...
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Cook County filingsOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Filing opened Monday for the Feb. 5 Illinois primary. Here are the candidates who filed Monday to run for Cook County offices and the judicial sub-circuits in the Northw...
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What's behind talk of strikeOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Today marks the first day Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 teachers could legally strike. Most indications are that won't actually happen today. But with no ...
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Big Ben shoes big time with a small price tagOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Wearing his own clothing line -- a Big Ben T-shirt and matching headband with a "BB" logo -- Chicago Bull Ben Wallace sat at a table while thousands of fans waited patie...
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'Twin Peaks' comes to DVDOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - It never appeared on screen, but Mädchen Amick has always envisioned a happy ending for Shelly Johnson, the character she played on the late, great television series "T...
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State, U.S. candidate filingsOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - U.S. President Democrat: Hillary Clinton, Chappaqua, N.Y. Barack Obama, Chicago, IL U.S. Senate Democrat: *Richard J. Durbin, Springfield Republican: Andy Martin, Chica...
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New Dist. 211 stance puts coaches on spotOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - It appears Palatine-Schaumburg High District 211 and its teachers union are heading for a showdown not just over teacher pay but whether post-season prep sports games wi...
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1 dead after car plunges into pondOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - The body of a woman in her 30s was recovered from inside a car that drove into the north pond at Busse Woods Forest Preserve near Elk Grove Village Monday afternoon. Div...
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'A Soldier's Wish List' donation gets you into free concert performancesOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - The Spirit of Life Chorus and Des Plaines Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2992 have joined together to fulfill "A Soldier's Wish List." The theme for this year's free conc...