Wood Dale
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Football league tackles cancerOct 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Brett Gray, all decked out in his Naperville Chargers football jersey, lives the life of most 10-year-old boys. That includes football on weekends. It's hard for him to...
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DuPage Co. may lay off 200 workersOct 14, 2007 11:00 pm - More than 200 DuPage County employees could lose their jobs as part of the county's latest doom-and-gloom budget proposal. County board Chairman Robert Schillerstrom tod...
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Police seek missing seniorOct 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Police are searching for a 72-year-old man after he went missing Saturday from his Wood Dale house, police said. Armando Monarrez left his house and was last seen on fo...
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Unknown toddler laid to rest in WheatonOct 14, 2007 11:00 pm - His family never came forward to claim him, but a community stepped up to make sure an unidentified toddler wasn't forgotten. A solemn crowd of about 100 mourners gath...
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Santo, volunteers do walk of fame at diabetes eventOct 14, 2007 11:00 pm - The skies were overcast, but a certain old Cub's smile brightened the day for the thousands who showed up Sunday in Busse Woods to help cure diabetes. Last year, the Ron...
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Vexed by thorium, looking for helpOct 13, 2007 11:00 pm - Doroteo and Paula Garza were planning to spend a lifetime in their West Chicago home, a block away from the former Kerr-McGee Co. factory where Doroteo worked for decade...
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Chapter 4: 1 of every 2 education dollars stays in classroomOct 13, 2007 11:00 pm - A typical suburban classroom of 25 students represents $315,000 in revenue. That's $12,600 per kid, the average per-pupil revenue collected in 2005-06 by the 94 school d...
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Naperville fire fighters take residents to Safety TownOct 13, 2007 11:00 pm - As flames licked the air a few feet away, Salima Jiwani and her 6-year-old son, Nizar, struggled to pull the pin out of the fire extinguisher. It wouldn't budge. The fir...
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Sept. 11 exhibit travels to help others rememberOct 13, 2007 11:00 pm - In the photographs 7-year-old Jacob Delgado looked over on Saturday, people stood in silent horror, mouths open, hands slapped against faces, bodies painted sooty black ...
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Ribfest nets $800,000 for area charitiesOct 12, 2007 11:00 pm - An extra day of activities and a $2 increase in ticket prices added up to record profits for Naperville's annual Fourth of July holiday festival. Ribfest organizers from...