Winfield
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Emphasis on fuel efficiencyMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - When Donna Namath leaves Kenosha, Wis., at 6:15 a.m. every weekday to travel to her job at Baxter International in Deerfield, she is not too worried about gasoline price...
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This time, it's parents who graduate with lessons on schoolsMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Parents and families packed the Wood Dale Junior High School gymnasium for dinner, dressed to the nines. As diplomas were handed out, though, and recipients proudly stro...
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Concealed gun bill stuck in a Capitol holdupMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- On a day when hundreds of Illinois gun owners flooded the state capital to oppose gun-control measures, an attempt to allow conceal-to-carry stalled in co...
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EPA shrugs off concerns about drugs in waterMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Third of three parts. PHILADELPHIA -- Just a century ago, this historic city notched by the Delaware and Schuylkill treated these rivers as public sewers, but few c...
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Villa Park trustees reject new softwareMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Villa Park residents may encounter some glitches when registering for programs in the future. Trustees this week tentatively rejected a plan to spend $28,675 on a new co...
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Briefs: County tightens smoke banMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Smokers can no longer use the parking garage entrance alcoves at the DuPage County government complex in Wheaton as refuge from the state's smoking ban. The county board...
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Villa Park OTB plan heads into home stretchMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Villa Park has hit the exacta in gaining both an off-track-betting parlor and a new restaurant for town. What remains to be seen is if the village can complete the trife...
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Bottled water has no drug standards to meetMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The federal standards for acceptable levels of pharmaceutical residue in bottled water are the same as those for tap water -- there aren't any. The Food and Drug Adminis...
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Debt collector fattens DuPage County's purseMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - More than $4.6 million has been recovered by the DuPage County circuit court clerk's office and two private debt collection agencies since a new fine recovery initiative...
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Central Times adviser not planning to resignMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Naperville Central High School newspaper adviser Linda Kane says administrators are threatening to fire her from her Central Times post if she does not resign by Friday....