Vernon Hills
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Sales tax hike on Deer Park ballotOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Shopping in Deer Park could be getting a bit more expensive. Deer Park village officials will ask voters Feb. 5 to approve a 0.5 percentage-point sales-tax increase, or ...
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Cyclocross event challenges racersOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Competitive running and cycling are difficult enough. But for some, each activity alone is only half the challenge. So what do you get when you combine the two? It's c...
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Stevenson home back to his likingOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Former U.S. presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson built this house in Mettawa in 1938. The Lake County Forest Preserve District just completed a $2.1 million restoratio...
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Briefs: Lake Zurich's hauntingsOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The Lake Zurich Park & Recreation Department's annual Haunted House at the Barn in Paulus Park will open this weekend, featuring a two-story maze. Evening hours will be ...
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BP restructuring to involve area officesOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - BP PLC employees in Naperville and Warrenville learned Thursday their company-wide restructuring could transfer many of their jobs to Houston and Chicago or eliminate th...
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Park City mayor criticizes GurneeOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Park City Mayor Steve Pannell says his small town dropped a formal objection to a planned vehicle recycling facility in neighboring Gurnee because he didn't sense any su...
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'Nutcracker' tickets going on sale todayOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Ticket sales for the Libertyville High School performances of Dancenter North's 19th annual production of "The Magic of the Nutcracker" will begin today. "The Magic of t...
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Man will stand trial in teen's murderOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Clifford Powers will stand trial for the murder of an 18-year-old Deerfield man during a drug deal gone bad, a Lake County judge ruled Thursday. Lake County Circuit Cou...
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Mundelein preps for leaf pickupOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Now that autumn is here, Mundelein's annual leaf-collection program is set to launch later this month. To participate, Mundelein residents must simply rake leaves to an ...
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Briefs: Slain boy wasn't targetOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Chicago police say the bullet that killed 10-year-old Arthur Jones several blocks from his South Side home Wednesday was probably meant for someone else. "At this point,...