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Durbin sees value in changing Cook Co. health systemOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - The drumbeats are getting louder in the push to turn over Cook County's financially strapped and scandal-plagued public health system to an independent board. U.S. Sen....
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Taylor finds doctor to do the surgeryOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Toes and fingers crossed, Laurie Radtke had sat perched in her pajamas on the floor, watching the phone for the bulk of Friday. She'd been up all night, checking and re-...
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Pioneering Roselle firefighter dies at 45Oct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - If there's one thing people will remember about Kevin A. Nelson, it's that he made a difference in many young lives. Every year for the last decade, the Roselle firefigh...
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Soapbox: Path needs another funding sourceOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Warrenville could walk away with something extra as part of the long-awaited thorium cleanup of the DuPage River. City representatives say they would like to see a netwo...
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Living, breathing historyOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Lance Brown has been portraying American humorist Will Rogers for more than 20 years and it hasn't gotten stale yet. Rogers' witty observations on life and politics ring...
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Local clown to return ... but not as KlutzoOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Klutzo may be dead, but Jerry Kautz is still a clown. And he even has his laugh back. In the wake of published reports about the woes triggered by another Klutzo the Clo...
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What makes a moment of silence?Oct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - It's ironic the legislature wants all Illinois students to remain silent for a "brief period" during their school day, because educators say the state has been very quie...
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Aurora library enjoys the silenceOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - These days, it's a lot quieter at the Aurora Public Library's Eola Road branch. And that silence is "music to my ears," branch manager Elizabeth Bumgarner says. One of t...
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Soapbox: Words hardly sufficeOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Adequate words truly fail in expressing condolences to longtime political fixture Jim Ryan and his wife, Marie, on the death by apparent suicide of their son Patrick. Te...
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Schaumburg park board has first member from RoselleOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Schaumburg Park District commissioners have appointed a new member to join them on the board, four months after 22-year veteran Nancy Wroblewski resigned and moved to Ge...