Oak Brook Opinion
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Editorial: Turnaround at Lake County Fair encouragingAug 14, 2012 5:00 am - The attendance figures for the 84th annual Lake County Fair, which ended a couple of weeks ago, won’t knock anyone’s socks off. A total of 91,548 visitors, up about 2.8 ...
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Troubled by ECC public safety, truck schoolsAug 14, 2012 4:40 am - The Burlington village board OK’d a conceptual plan for ECC’s vision of a regional public safety and sustainability facility. We the people voted to approve a $178 milli...
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Support tax cut for middle classAug 08, 2012 4:40 am - Recently, the U.S. Senate passed a bill continuing the temporary 2001 income tax cuts for people whose yearly incomes are less than $250,000. Ninety-eight percent of us ...
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Editorial: A road map to transparencyAug 07, 2012 5:00 am - When Lombard Village Trustee Peter Breen was elected in April 2011, he made transparency in village government a priority. It’s no wonder then that Lombard now is a mode...
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The SoapboxJul 21, 2012 5:30 am - Tribute to Jeanine: Jeanine Nicarico is back in the news, but this time for a reason that will offer hope to abused children. A new DuPage County Children’s Advocacy Cen...
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Springbrook Prairie’s new status welcomeJul 17, 2012 2:35 pm - Springbrook Prairie’s new status welcome The River Prairie Group of the Sierra Club is thrilled to support the Forest Preserve Commission of DuPage County in their ...
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DuPage hit hard two weeks ago, but pales compared to '96Jul 15, 2012 5:00 am - The framed, color reprint of the front page of our July 19, 1996, edition still hangs on the wall outside my office. The main story contains one of my all-time favorite ...
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Coolidge’s decisions will be based on factsJul 15, 2012 4:40 am - This fall voters have the opportunity to begin to break down the extremist political orthodoxy that crashed the economy in 2007-2008 and has been refusing to let it rest...
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Editorial: Use the new tool to help Cook taxpayersJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - If you’re a Cook County taxpayer, did you spend any time with the 139-page special section county officials put together and inserted into the newspaper recently? It rea...
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To judges go the leftovers; a Ribfest retrospectiveJul 08, 2012 5:00 am - In the already-sweltering Ribfest tent, Naperville Mayor George Pradel rose to his feet last Sunday and bellowed out the rib judges’ sacred oath: “I do solemnly swear to...