Northbrook
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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...
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Illinois foreclosures lessen; others soarMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - The rate of foreclosures in Illinois appears to be stabilizing while nationwide numbers continue to escalate, according to a RealtyTrac report expected to be released to...
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U-46 superintendent again announced without contract firstMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Despite getting burned in the past, the Elgin Area School District U-46 board has presented a superintendent nominee to the community without a contract. "I think the ri...
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Hospital loses one of its biggest backersMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - In April, the Cardiac Care Center at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, marked its 1,000th open heart surgery since opening in 2004. Hospital officials refl...
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'Right time' for Mt. Prospect's campaignMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - The Mount Prospect village board on Tuesday got its first glimpse at a proposed marketing campaign designed to give the village its own brand type. The phrase "Right Pla...
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Family carries on young man's fightMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Six months ago, the future looked bright for Northwestern University senior Bryan Paynter, grandson of the school's legendary band director, John Paynter. The young man ...
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Authorities: 18 injured in fight at Cook County JailMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Authorities say 11 officers and seven inmates were injured in a fight involving more than 40 inmates in a Cook County Jail yard. Sheriff's office spokeswoman Penny Matec...