Cook County
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Gas numbers don’t add upJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - When crude oil was $147 per barrel regular gasoline was about $4.30 per gallon. Now crude oil is about $100 per barrel and regular gasoline is about $4.30 per gallon. Us...
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Elgin to celebrate new U.S. citizensJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - Addy Enriquez moved to the United States with her parents when she was 14. She was coming from Guatemala City and not at all pleased with the decision to move north. No...
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Show support for COD journalistsJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - The replacement of College of DuPage professor Cathy Stablein as adviser to the Courier student newspaper is a thinly veiled attempt to get rid of a highly skilled, awar...
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Indian Trails hires search firm to help find new directorJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - The Indian Trails Public Library District has hired Miriam Pollack + Associates to help in its search for a new library director. The district will pay the Northbrook f...
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Kaptain holds ‘Listening Session’ in ElginJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - In an effort to engage the community and increase transparency concerning the workings of the city of Elgin, Mayor David Kaptain addressed residents online and in person...
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Judge sends Hoffman Estates man to jailJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - A Cook County judge on Tuesday revoked the bond of a 21-year-old drunken driver whose friend died last year in a car crash on the Jane Addams Tollway. After the accident...
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Report claims Cook governments’ debt at $108 billionJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - A report from Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas claims taxpayers countywide are on the hook for more than $108 billion in debt accrued by various government agencies, i...
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Harper to host dinner, jazzJun 20, 2011 1:00 am - Erin Blanchette, a 2011 graduate of Fremd High School, Palatine, will be featured as a guest jazz vocalist at the Harper College annual summertime dinner and concert Jun...
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Wheeling HS freshmen pack food for needyJun 20, 2011 1:00 am - A group of Wheeling High School freshmen, most of them Class Board members, traveled May 19 to the Aurora facility of the nonprofit organization “Feed My Starving Childr...
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Police looking for suburban dadsJun 20, 2011 12:00 am - A two-week Cook County sheriff’s police sting operation targeting deadbeat dads resulted in 80 arrests of men who owe more than $1.7 million collectively in unpaid child...