Cook County
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Hoffman Estates hosts 3rd Fitness For America Sports Festival this coming weekendJul 16, 2011 12:00 am - The third annual Alexian Brothers Fitness For America Sports Festival will take place from Friday to Sunday, July 22-24, near the AT&T campus in the village of Hoffman E...
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Little City ‘Bash’ talent show is MondayJul 16, 2011 12:00 am - Join Fremd High School senior Jessie Miller and fellow students as they present the first Little City Summer Bash talent show, from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Willow Recre...
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‘Seussical The Musical’ opens Friday in Des PlainesJul 16, 2011 12:00 am - “After all of those years being stuck on a page, Did you ever imagine you#146;d see me onstage? Now I#146;m here, there#146;s no telling what may ensue! No ...
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Buffalo Grove opens the Fine Arts FestJul 16, 2011 12:00 am - More than 160 juried artists put their best art forward Saturday at opening day of the Buffalo Grove Fine Arts Invitational, and they’ll be back Sunday for more of the s...
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Storms damage 3,849 Mt. Prospect treesJul 16, 2011 12:00 am - All the numbers aren’t in yet, but Mount Prospect estimates that the two severe storms that passed through in June and July damaged 3,849 parkway trees, or about 1 in 6....
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Arlington Hts. Irish Fest a successJul 16, 2011 12:00 am - Irish Fest in Arlington Heights had the luck of the Irish, or at least the blessing of Mother Nature, for its two-day run that ended Saturday night. The annual festival,...
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Inspector general has eye on ethicsJul 15, 2011 3:00 am - The Daily Herald’s July 8 editorial, “State’s ethics math does not compute,” asks readers to recall middle-school math and then proposes this word problem: “If 29 state ...
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Tax system unfair to individual payersJul 15, 2011 3:00 am - We are all in agreement that the federal government is spending to much money. What we cannot decide is where additional money will come from or where spending cuts are ...
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A thank-you sent from across globeJul 15, 2011 3:00 am - I am a private ESL instructor in the Northwest suburbs and recently received this impressive and heartfelt note from a student’s father who was visiting Chicago from Jap...
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Elgin police: Man stole from blind, 95-year-old womanJul 15, 2011 1:00 am - An Elgin man who lived near a 95-year-old blind woman apparently helped himself to roughly $50,000 of her hard-earned cash, police said Friday. Police say that over a p...