Cook County
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Prices jump as heroin antidote use increasesSep 19, 2015 7:05 am - The growing popularity of drugs used to treat heroin overdoses has resulted in costs that have quadrupled in the past two years in some cases. Experts say prices have es...
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Fallen McHenry County deputy hero honoredSep 19, 2015 1:00 am - The chattering stopped and a football, once airborne, sat stationary on the grass. At Northwood Middle School late Saturday afternoon, somber silence prevailed as peopl...
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Dawn Patrol: COD board voids president's contract; Dist. 23 teachers to picket for 3rd daySep 18, 2015 5:00 am - COD board voids president's contract A month after starting the process to fire embattled school President Robert Breuder, College of DuPage trustees Thursday decla...
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Dawn Patrol: Prospect Heights schools still closed; services set for deputySep 17, 2015 5:00 am - Dist. 23 strike closes schools today The teachers strike at Prospect Heights Elementary District 23 has canceled classes for a second day, and no new negotiating se...
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Madigan charges alleged suburban 'bootleggers' with tax evasionSep 17, 2015 1:00 am - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is charging several suburban men who operate Chicago liquor stores with evading more than $3.5 million in sales taxes collectively...
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Why some park districts want to dump lobby groupSep 16, 2015 5:30 am - When Glen Ellyn Park District commissioner Jay Kinzler learned the head of the state parks association was making $360,000 to lead the private lobbying group largely fun...
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Dawn Patrol: Prospect Hts. teachers on strike; Motorola HQ leaving SchaumburgSep 16, 2015 5:00 am - Prospect Heights Dist. 23 teachers walk out Parents of students in Prospect Heights Elementary District 23 are getting automatic calls this morning saying the strik...
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Elgin sex offender admits he's a pedophile, will get treatmentSep 15, 2015 1:00 am - A 39-year-old Elgin man who served prison time for molesting a boy in August 2010 in a restroom at an Elgin shopping area has admitted he is a pedophile and will be sent...
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Dawn Patrol: McHenry County deputy dies; school response to Desmond ClarkSep 14, 2015 11:00 pm - McHenry County deputy dies 11 months after Holiday Hills shooting Dwight Maness, a McHenry County sheriff's deputy who was shot in Holiday Hills during a call last...
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Dawn Patrol: Officer killed in wrong-way I-294 crash; Aurora man dies after falling off ladderSep 14, 2015 5:00 am - Off-duty police officer killed in wrong-way crash on I-294 An off-duty Chicago Ridge police officer was killed Sunday in a three-vehicle crash involving a car trave...