Prospect Heights
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Cook County budget, finances leave some scratching their headsJun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - If you're asked to approve a change to a budget at midyear, but still don't have the original budget, can you really approve changes? That was the question Cook County B...
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Rolling Meadows takes down controversial barriersJun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - All the barricades blocking entrances to a big Rolling Meadows apartment complex will be removed by noon today, city officials said. "Our attorney said why not take them...
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Deep-dish devotion: Vet now wants to ship 3,000 pizzas to troopsJun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Elk Grove Village resident Mark Evans is feeling the deep-dish love. Forget the 300 Lou Malnati's pizzas that the Air Force veteran wanted to send to U.S. soldiers in Ir...
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EPA finds algae in stream is all naturalJun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Reports that a stream running through the Deer Grove Forest Preserve near Palatine had turned milky green and smelled like detergent prompted visits Saturday by the Illi...
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Driver charged after car hits Pace bus in WheelingJun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - A Wheeling man has been charged with driving under the influence after his car struck a Pace bus Monday evening in a four-vehicle accident in Wheeling that injured two p...
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Briefs: New chief for SchaumburgJun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Schaumburg police Cmdr. Dirk Christiansen has been appointed the department's the new chief of staff. He replaces Michael Prafke, who's retiring after 30 years on the fo...
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'Shred America' crew logs 500 miles so farJun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - The Shred America skateboarders are now about two-thirds of the way to their destination, New York City. On Tuesday, the suburban four-man crew was 25 miles southeast of...
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Paratransit users expand lawsuit against PaceJun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Pace paratransit users in Chicago displeased with cost increases and service problems are expanding the scope of a lawsuit filed in federal court. The legal action claim...
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Longtime Vernon Area library director dies after cancer battleJun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Robert "Allen" Meyer, the veteran director of the Vernon Area Public Library in Lincolnshire, died Sunday after a seven-month battle with cancer. Mr. Meyer died at his B...
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Another infestation to battleJun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Movie crews aren't coming to Evelyn Holzman's backyard in an unincorporated area between Elgin and Hoffman Estates. But if they did, she believes they would have the per...