Marengo
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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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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...
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Officials standing by to help; need volunteersAug 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Emergency personnel and local officials are standing by today in the northern Fox Valley to help residents affected by yesterday's storms and recent flooding. Officials ...
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Colleges offer ways to put B.S. into your degreeAug 22, 2007 11:00 pm - Buffy 101 Local colleges offer many ways to put the B.S. into your degree The alarm went off at 7:15 a.m., leaving you plenty of time to get ready for your 8 a.m. class....
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Floodwater takes its time to reach riversAug 22, 2007 11:00 pm - Hydrologists say predicting the pace of downstream flooding on the Fox and Des Plaines rivers is tricky. Rita Lee, a hydrologist with the Illinois Department of Natural ...
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Investigator's pay questioned againAug 22, 2007 11:00 pm - When it comes to pay per hour worked, the third-highest-paid person in the McHenry County State's Attorney Lou Bianchi's office isn't the chief of its criminal division....
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Judge rules against MinutemanAug 22, 2007 11:00 pm - A McHenry County judge this afternoon issued a temporary restraining order against the Illinois Minuteman Project, barring the group from holding a Saturday meeting at t...