Northbrook
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Local orchestra to show audience how a band worksMay 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Since its formation in 2001, members of the Northwest Festival Orchestra have adopted the mission of championing great musical works. At 7:30 p.m. on Friday, the 65 pro...
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Palatine may drop out of visitor bureauMay 14, 2008 11:00 pm - The benefits to Palatine as a member of the Woodfield Chicago Northwest Convention Bureau are so "inconsequential" that officials are reconsidering renewing. They said a...
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Briefs: Officer memorial todayMay 14, 2008 11:00 pm - The public is invited to join police officers from several departments in the Northwest and West suburbs who will gather in West Dundee this evening for the annual Peace...
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Stroger visits Hoffman Estates, says he's not afraid of the suburbsMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Not everyone wanted to shake Todd Stroger's hand Tuesday when the Cook County Board president came to observe the bioterrorism drill conducted at the Sears Centre. A Hof...
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Trib nixes plan to sell Wrigley Field to stateMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Tribune Co. and its CEO Sam Zell rejected an Illinois state agency's plan to buy Wrigley Field and are pushing ahead to sell the ballpark together with the Chicago Cubs,...
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Warning labels would have 'chilling effect,' critics argueMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Stricter warning labels proposed for toys containing a legal amount of lead would have a "chilling effect" on consumers, one suburban lawmaker argued Tues...
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Dirt cookies: Campaign raises awareness of hunger in HaitiMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Officials with Bright Hope International in Hoffman Estates, make no bones about it: Dirt cookies don't taste very good. Then why are they sending packages of them to su...
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Briefs: Crash victim identifiedMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Police identified a 58-year-old Sycamore man Tuesday as the driver who died in a three vehicle crash in Barrington Hills on Monday. Lt. Rich Semelsberger said Richard Jo...
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Tyson CFO leaving for Walgreen postMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGDALE, Ark. -- Tyson Foods said Tuesday Chief Financial Officer Wade Miquelon is leaving the company to take a similar job at Walgreen Co., the nation's largest ret...
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Ruling on merger soughtMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Canadian National is asking the Surface Transportation Board to rule on its proposed purchase of the Elgin Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. by Dec. 1 in a filing Tuesday wit...