Inverness
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Brass band championship to have international toneOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - John Meling of Arlington Heights has gone toe-to-toe with students for 33 years in his role as a science teacher and administrator at Prospect, Wheeling, Rolling Meadows...
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Student hurt in explosionOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Northwestern University says a graduate student was injured in a science lab explosion. A school spokeswoman says Jason Nicholas was mixing compounds in a glass contain...
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Grade schools improve, high schools tumble in latest test scoresOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - In a year of heightened expectations on state tests, 900 Illinois schools landed failing grades, results released today show -- including more high schools than ever in ...
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State, U.S. candidate filingsOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Here is the complete list of statewide and legislative candidates for the Feb. 5 Illinois primary as of 5 p.m. Wednesday. Filing for the primary will close Nov. 5. An as...
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Briefs: Mitsubishi Gas taps UOP as supplierOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - DES PLAINES -- UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced Tuesday that Japan's Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co. Inc. has selected UOP to supply technology, engineering, equipmen...
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U-46 middle schoolers see gains, but district lagsOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Hundreds more students at Elgin Area School District U-46's eight middle schools met state reading and math standards last school year. Middle school scores inched up st...
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Hillard's a big hit for FremdOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Nick Hillard definitely has the primal instinct for playing middle linebacker. When someone with the ball comes his way, the Fremd senior wants to do more than just make...
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Informal Dist. 211 talks aim to halt strikeOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Behind the rhetoric of labor negotiations at Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211, the two sides continue to talk informally, suggesting there's still hope of av...
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Schools will test students throughout the yearOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - With more area schools failing to meet standards on state tests this year, educators in the Northwest suburbs are hoping a new tool will turn the trend around. In Pala...
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Stroger's no-show doesn't go over wellOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Furious suburbanites berated an absent Todd Stroger at county budget hearings Tuesday night in Skokie, criticizing him almost as much for not having the courage to face ...