Oak Brook
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Score disparity based on apples-to-apples comparisonMar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - To compare passing rates on eighth-grade and 11th-grade high-stakes tests, the Daily Herald combined the statistics of nine suburban high school districts and their resp...
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Why so many 8th-graders make the grade but later failMar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Suburban eighth-graders sail through state tests. But many of those same students struggle to make the grade once they reach high school. Most haven't lost real academic...
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DuPage County in 60 secondsMar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - St. Patrick's Day concert Glenbard South High School choral students will take the stage tonight for a concert in the school auditorium, 23W200 Butterfield Road, Glen El...
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Grading system change is keyMar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - State officials confirmed Friday they will change the way high-stakes tests for high school students are graded. It's the latest in a string of adjustments -- some large...
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Drew Peterson can have cars, computers backMar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Drew Peterson emerged from a Joliet courtroom today with a judge's order that cars and computers seized by authorities be returned to him. The former Bolingbrook sergean...
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Brother: 'He never owned a gun'Mar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Michael Giroux never owned a gun, his brother said Sunday, which is partly why his family is struggling with the reality that he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Arlin...
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$2 million bond for Carol Stream man in mother's murderMar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - A Carol Stream man accused of stabbing his mother and then defacing her body with household chemicals will have to post $2 million to get out of jail after a Sunday morn...
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Patrick Botterman: Political groundbreaker, true friendMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Patrick Botterman was a born political strategist who broke barriers for Democrats in the Republican-dominated Northwest suburbs and launched the careers of state and fe...
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Quit stalling on Cook County reformsMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - It hardly comes as a surprise to see downstate Republicans waving foam fingers in the air and razzing Cook County for having reached the highest sales tax in the nation,...
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Wheaton veteran's battles now on the homefrontMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Joel Gomez's post traumatic stress disorder is on a different level than the more fortunate of his fellow Iraq war veterans. It's not uncommon for his niece, Sonia Sanch...