Spring Grove
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Angry disabled riders sound offMay 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Transit riders with disabilities brought their grievances with Pace to a higher authority Thursday. "People are hurting," transit advocate Ayo Maat told Regional Transpo...
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Liberty students race for PatrickMay 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Fifth-grade students at Carpentersville's Liberty Elementary School learned too soon the devastation of cancer when they lost young classmate Patrick Smith in 2004. They...
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Carpentersville teen wins Golden Gloves championshipMay 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Carpentersville-based amateur boxer Simon Buettner has a reputation for knocking his opponents out. In 10 fights, the 19-year-old Buettner is the owner of nine victories...
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Voter ID proposal rejected along party linesMay 15, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- An attempt to require Illinois voters to show identification before casting a ballot was rejected Thursday by Democratic lawmakers. The proposal would hav...
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Students lobby for alternative schoolsMay 14, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- By age 15, Komaneque Bobbett thought she'd lost everything. Depressed and angry, she'd been kicked out of school. But the Aurora teen landed a spot in No...
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Juvenile suspect identified in errorMay 14, 2008 11:00 pm - McHenry County authorities dismissed a child sex abuse charge against a Wonder Lake teen Wednesday, admitting they made a mistake charging him as an adult and disclosing...
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Lisle entrepreneur closes store, offers advice to othersMay 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Randy Russell knows first-hand that even good business plans don't always work: The Lisle store he co-owned, Wine Expressions, closed its doors Saturday, transitioning t...
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Immediate annuities can be a useful toolMay 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I wonder if single-premium immediate annuities (SPIAs) are for me. I am 75. My wife is 73. We have no debt, $850,000 in IRAs (mostly in the American Fund family) and ...
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Verizon to debut Linux phonesMay 14, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Verizon Wireless is backing a free operating system that competes with programs from Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Qualcomm Inc., and expects the system t...
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Algonquin police chief's pneumonia improvingMay 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Algonquin Police Chief Russell Laine is edging out of the woods when it comes to his month-long battle against double pneumonia, a family spokesman said Wednesday. Docto...