Cook County
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Cook County pet spay/neuter discount program returnsFeb 01, 2016 12:00 am - Cook County will again partner with private veterinarians to offer discounted spay and neuter services for pets in February, which is National Spay and Neuter Month. The...
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Why it's harder to recycle your old TVJan 31, 2016 12:00 am - Free options for disposal of TVs, computer monitors have decreased
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Cook County sheriff announces jail consolidationJan 29, 2016 12:00 am - Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart will be closing its oldest jail building on the South Side of Chicago while placing all female inmates in one renovated building. Dart sa...
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Suburban farms guard against virus that's killed horses in BartlettJan 29, 2016 12:00 am - The suburban equestrian community took precautions Friday to protect horses from the equine herpes virus that a state agency says has affected at least eight horses at B...
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Lester: Alvarez's schedule reveals some details of McDonald investigationJan 28, 2016 4:30 am - Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez's schedule shows she met with U.S. Attorney Zach Fardon five times during the year between the shooting of a black Chicago...
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70 jail inmates isolated by flu outbreakJan 26, 2016 12:00 am - Three living units at the Cook County jail are under isolation and a fourth is under heightened surveillance after symptoms of both influenza and gastroenteritis began a...
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Ten stories you may have missed this weekendJan 25, 2016 4:00 am - 1. Red-light cameras were installed at intersections across the suburbs supposably to reduce crashes, but that's not always what's happened, a Daily Herald analysis show...
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Cook County Sheriff Dart blasts Rauner over mental health cutsJan 24, 2016 12:00 am - Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart and the National Alliance on Mental Illness denounced Gov. Bruce Rauner this weekend, following the announcement that Lutheran Social Ser...
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Two years in prison for trucker who killed trooperJan 22, 2016 12:00 am - The truck driver who killed a state trooper from Vernon Hills in a 2013 crash on the Tri-State Tollway pleaded guilty to three charges Friday in a Skokie courtroom and w...
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Chicago Archdiocese hires new director of child protection officeJan 22, 2016 12:00 am - Mary Jane Doerr, associate director in the Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, will take over Feb. 8 as director of the...