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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...
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Wheeling bank will put in wind turbinesAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - The developers of the new Devon Bank near the Westin Hotel want it to be as environmentally friendly as possible. That includes solar panels on the roof and six wind tu...