Northbrook
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Elk Grove looks at hostile annexationAug 15, 2008 11:00 pm - A Firestone auto business is about to be forcibly annexed into Elk Grove Village. On Tuesday, village board members plan to annex the half-acre property at 2627 E. Higg...
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Jobs booming in ElginAug 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Forget all that stuff about Elgin being the city to watch or how it's the year of the neighborhood. If city leaders are looking for a new mantra slogan, it could be "Elg...
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Lawyer posts addresses of priests in abuse lawsuitsAug 15, 2008 11:00 pm - A lawyer has posted addresses and phone numbers online of several priests named in sexual abuse lawsuits that the Archdiocese of Chicago settled for $12.7 million. Minne...
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Streamwood man strives for new veterans political groupAug 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Fred Hossfeld has a dream that the nation's veterans organize themselves politically into a group whose interests could not be ignored by politicians. The Streamwood res...
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Armed home invasion in Barrington HillsAug 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Police are investigating a home invasion in Barrington Hills early today in which three or more men bound and gagged occupants and held them at gunpoint before leaving w...
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CN seeks split decision on EJ&E rail planAug 15, 2008 11:00 pm - The Canadian National Railway wants a split decision by federal regulators on its controversial plan to buy the smaller Elgin Joliet & Eastern Railway. CN on Friday anno...
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East Dundee mechanic renews fight for guardrail after ninth crashAug 15, 2008 11:00 pm - For Randy Klemm, the phone call in the middle of the night doesn't mean someone's died. It means someone has driven through his parking lot and destroyed his customers' ...
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Fire damages Palatine homeAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - An overnight blaze left a Palatine home uninhabitable because of heavy fire, heat and smoke damage. Because no one was at the home at 1164 S. Brockway St., the fire spre...
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A century (and more) of bicycles on display SundayAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - A turn-of-the-century Columbia bike, vintage Stingrays, the racing bike that Greg LeMond rode as the first American to win the Tour de France in 1986. Those are just som...
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Puppy boom takes over newlyweds' livesAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Newlyweds Heather and Dave Malecek could have learned a lesson from the story of the Trojan horse. Indi, the diminutive German shepherd-pit bull mix they fell in love wi...