Prospect Heights
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St. Charles, Hoffman Estates look to get on board early for 2016 OlympicsJul 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Hotels and sports facilities in fringe suburban Chicago are finding out not only how they can get a piece of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games business bonanza, but also how...
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Des Plaines schedules special meeting on term limitsJul 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Des Plaines aldermen will reopen talk of term limits on Thursday. Fifth Ward Alderman Carla Brookman, who must vacate her seat next spring due to term limits, has heard ...
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Here's your chance to dig up a mastodonJul 25, 2008 11:00 pm - A joint effort between the DuPage County Forest Preserve and Chicago's Field Museum is in its second year of extracting mastodon fossils from a field in the Pratt's Wayn...
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Your faithJul 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Deadline for submissions is noon Tuesday. Due to space limitations, not all "Your Faith" items are listed here. The complete column appears on the Daily Herald Web site....
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Frykman Technologies still takes care of low-tech typewritersJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - For people of a certain age, the rat-a-tat of a typewriter in action is an unmistakable sound. But as personal computers superseded typewriters as indispensable pieces o...
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Brookfield Zoo to reopen stingray exhibitJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Brookfied Zoo says it plans to reopen an exhibit that was closed after a malfunction in the heating and cooling system of a pool killed 16 stingrays. Officials say the S...
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Ukulele fest comes to Des PlainesJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - This news release had me hooked with the promise of an event on the "Island of Des Plaines." Indeed, sounds of the islands are coming to the river town of Des Plaines. ...
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Brief: Playground crash, no injuriesJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - A woman who passed out behind the wheel crashed her SUV into a Bartlett school playground Tuesday, but no one was injured, police said. Police said no children were on t...
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Inline skating marathon ready to rollJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Organizers expect more than 300 skaters to compete at Saturday's Chicagoland Inline Marathon in Hoffman Estates. At best they were hoping for 1,000 skaters, but they're ...
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New foundation aims to help U-46 schoolsJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - A new nonprofit educational foundation aims to support Elgin Area School District U-46 in ways state and federal funding cannot. The U-46 Educational Foundation, two yea...