Hoffman Estates
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Is transit system running on empty?Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Two transit officials - one the former state treasurer - are challenging the purported size of Metra's budget shortfall as the agency pushes for a quarter-cent sales tax...
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RTA: Cuts, fare hikes imminentAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Metra, Pace and CTA officials drew a budget line in the sand Thursday. After pressing for nearly a year for tax hikes to fill a collective $240 million budget hole, tra...
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Governor declares 4-county disaster areaAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich today declared Cook, Lake, Kane and McHenry counties to be state disaster areas. The governor toured the floodwaters of the Des Plaines Riv...
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Projects facing the ax in state budgetAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Millions of dollars for everything from a Sicilian delegation's suburban visit to new police cars were stricken from the state budget Thursday by Gov. Rod...
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Police beatAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Hoffman Estates •Golf clubs were stolen between Aug. 18 and Aug. 20 out of a garage on the 1600 block of Castaway Court. The golf clubs were valued at $1,400. •A bicycle...
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Police department seeks approval of peer agencyAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - A team of assessors from the Fairfax, Va.-based Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, or CALEA, arrived in Hanover Park earlier this week to take a t...
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Friday's football resultsAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Friday's results Nonconference Elgin 27, Plainfield Central 18 Larkin 29, McHenry 66 Marmion at South Elgin, 7:30 p.m. Hoffman Estates 20, Woodstock 14 Lake Park 16, Co...
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Briefs: Driver hospitalizedAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - A Lake in the Hills man was hospitalized in stable condition Thursday, recovering from injuries suffered in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday near Island Lake. Dennis Lee Wi...
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Neighbor SportsAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Baseball, softball Crushers tryouts: The Northwest Crushers (formerly the Stone Authority Crushers) U13 Boys Travel Baseball Team will hold tryouts for the 2008 seas...
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Fluke front is to blame for all this rainAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Will it ever stop raining? State climatologists and meteorologists say yes, but just not right now. Experts say that's because the heavy August rainfall on northern Il...