Northbrook
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Dow Chemical raising prices to offset energy costsMay 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Dow Chemical Co. will raise its prices by up to 20 percent almost immediately to offset the soaring cost of energy, and the CEO of the chemical giant lashed out at Washi...
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Illinoisans have no objections to paying more for 'green' carsMay 27, 2008 11:00 pm - People will pay more green to drive green, a statewide survey concluded. The poll found that 89 percent of respondents supported legislation to stiffen fuel-efficiency s...
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Historic Mt. Prospect school set to move this weekMay 27, 2008 11:00 pm - After six years of trying to move the historic Central School to a safe location, the Mount Prospect Historical Society is scheduled to move the 1896 schoolhouse a littl...
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Chicago sets record for home price plungeMay 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Home prices in the Chicago-to-Joliet region plunged about 10 percent, the most ever calculated by the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller Home Price Indices and released Tues...
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Devoted life to churchMay 27, 2008 11:00 pm - For 30 years, William J. Dittmer ushered worshippers into early Sunday morning Masses at St. Ansgar's Catholic Church in Hanover Park. While he served as a familiar fac...
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Animals make an impact at hospitalMay 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Although attached to her IV line while in bed at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, 7-year-old Jenna Edwards of Itasca excitedly clapped at the latest vi...
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Night Ranger, Dennis DeYoung to play Frontier DaysMay 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Get out those lighters -- Frontier Days is bringing back some serious 1980s power ballads this summer. Night Ranger, best known for "Sister Christian," and Dennis DeYo...
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One week in, Hoffman Estates chamber director resignsMay 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Hoffman Estates Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jill Blodgett lasted 17 years before announcing her resignation. Her successor was on the job for a considerably s...
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Rezko jury takes another half day off from deliberationsMay 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Jurors weighing the fate of political insider Antoin "Tony" Rezko took another half day Tuesday, but plan to stay late Wednesday and Thursday "to help conclude our decis...
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More witnesses ID girl in R. Kelly sex tapeMay 27, 2008 11:00 pm - A former employee of R. Kelly testified Tuesday that she was "110 percent sure" the Grammy-winning R&B singer appeared with an underage girl on a sex tape at the center ...