Northfield
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Mount Prospect hires engineers to visit flooded homesAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - Mount Prospect trustees agreed Tuesday to hire a Kansas City-based engineering firm to visit homes flooded by the July 23 storms and help the village determine how to pr...
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Des Plaines waives permit fees for flood repairsAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - Des Plaines will waive permit fees for repairs and improvements needed as a result of July 23 flooding, city officials said this week. The city council voted unanimousl...
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Incarceration: Rehabilitation not part of Angel Facio's lifeAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - He'd be taking classes at Elgin Community College by now, he imagines. Angel Facio had always wanted to be a chef. “Eggs con chorizo” were one of the specialties he used...
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Oakton board fills trustee vacancyAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - The Oakton Community College board this week named Eric Staley of Northfield to fill the seat left vacant by Monday’s resignation of trustee William Jackson Jr. Staley w...
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Rev. Patrick Durkin, one of St. Viator’s founders, passesAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - One of the faculty members who helped launch St. Viator High School 50 years ago next month has died. The Rev. Patrick Durkin passed away Sunday at the age of 85. Fr. Du...
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Little City Book Fair opens Friday at HarperAug 17, 2011 12:00 am - It’s time for the annual Little City Foundation Book Fair, Friday through Sunday, Aug. 19-21, at Harper College in Palatine. The nationally renowned used book sale that’...
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Harper opens new semester with 'master of bizarre'Aug 16, 2011 11:00 pm - Brian Brushwood, a fire-eating, spiky-haired master of the bizarre, will perform various tricks to welcome students to fall semester at Harper College at noon Wednesday,...
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Judson University President Announces RetirementAug 16, 2011 11:00 pm - (Elgin, IL – August 17, 2011) Judson University President Jerry B. Cain has announced that he will retire on June 30, 2012. Dr. Cain, who has served as Judson's preside...
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Shortsighted to cut federal workforceAug 16, 2011 5:02 am - As a federal employee, I am writing to ask that everybody oppose S. 1476, the “Federal Workforce Reduction and Reform Act of 2011.” The bill, introduced by Republican Se...
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Walsh is doing what he promised to doAug 16, 2011 5:02 am - Just when the Northwest suburbs get Joe Walsh as their congressman to lead the fight in changing the out-of-control spending in Washington, the Daily Herald sees fit to ...