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Briefs: Airline flight delays lower in AugustOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- U.S. airlines improved their on-time flight arrival rate to 71.7 percent in August, a small increase from July, which ranked as one of the industry's worst...
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Oompah! Oktoberfest tradition continues in NapervilleOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Sometimes it's fun to pretend you're in a giant beer tent in Munich, hoisting a beer stein into the air, toasting life and autumn the way Bavarians do. For the past 15 y...
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Art auction to benefit BenedictineOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - A former student's donation of a mysterious artwork hand-delivered in a pillowcase may enable a monk at Lisle's Benedictine University to realize a dream. The piece, now...
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IDOT wants do-over to fix O'Hare trafficOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Take everything you ever thought you knew about the much-hyped western bypass of O'Hare International Airport and the eastern extension of the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway an...
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Wheaton man faces drugs, weapons chargesOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - A Wheaton man has been charged with several drug and gun violations following a traffic stop in Lisle. Todd W. Samuel, 23, of 1586 Coloma Court, was arrested Sept. 27 af...
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Brave Six Flags birds get the wormsOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Imagine 130,000 mealworms slithering, sliming, twisting and twirling in your hair, down your neck and along every inch of exposed skin. You'll have the chance to s...
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Motorola details layoff expensesOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Schaumburg-based Motorola Inc. has spent around $343 million for severance and other costs related to eliminating 5,100 jobs so far this year, the company said in a fili...
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Naperville eyes downtown tweaksOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Summer's over and Naperville City Council appears ready to get down to business in its quest to reshape parts of downtown. Council members this week agreed to schedule t...
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Roselle's Kemmerling Park coming alongOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - The Roselle Park District's most anticipated project of the decade is emerging out of its cocoon. Roughly a dozen people, including park board commissioners and distric...
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50 years ago, Sputnik changed the way we view worldOct 03, 2007 11:00 pm - Fifty years ago today, a shiny metal sphere soared into the heavens and started orbiting the Earth. The world would never be the same. Americans reacted to the successfu...