Cook County
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Lines expected for first day of candidate filingDec 15, 2014 4:30 am - Starting today, candidates for various suburban municipal, park district, library and fire district offices will begin filing their nomination papers to get on the April...
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Dawn Patrol: Waukegan church leads rally; Saad leads Hawks to winDec 15, 2014 4:00 am - Waukegan church leads protest rally in wake of Brown, Garner deaths Alternately angry and determined, members of Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church and othe...
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School board filing going smoothly in Cook CountyDec 15, 2014 12:01 am - Alva Kreutzer was at Ditka's Arlington Heights location at 6:50 a.m. Monday morning, more than an hour before the doors opened. "I had this nightmare there would be a hu...
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Cook County judge OKs another Gacy exhumationDec 12, 2014 10:00 pm - CHICAGO - The body of a teen identified as one of serial killer John Wayne Gacy's victims will be exhumed for testing to determine if his body was misidentified. The...
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Dawn Patrol: Our Lady of Guadalupe feast day begins; Dist. 121 apologyDec 12, 2014 4:01 am - Catholics flock to Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine As many as 120,000 pilgrims late last night began celebrating the feast day for Our Lady of Guadalupe overnight on t...
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Palatine family's suit against fraternity dismissedDec 12, 2014 12:01 am - A judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed against a fraternity by the family of a Northern Illinois University student from Palatine who died after a night of heavy drinkin...
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Dawn Patrol: Board member: no gay superintendent; Bulls winDec 11, 2014 4:01 am - Warren Township District 121 board member: No gay superintendent Warren Township High School board member Liz Biondi said last week she hopes the district does not ...
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Ye Olde Town Inn, Billy Goat latest restaurants to close in suburbsDec 11, 2014 12:01 am - Editor's note: A previous version of this story indicated that Family House Restaurant in Schaumburg closed in November. It opened in November. Ye Olde Town Inn and...
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Sheriff: Cook County inmate attacks attorneyDec 11, 2014 12:01 am - Authorities say a Cook County Jail inmate has attacked his public defender during a jail visit. A Cook County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman says the inmate struck the ass...
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Buffalo Grove man gets life sentence in kidnap-torture plotDec 11, 2014 12:01 am - A Buffalo Grove man will spend the rest of his life in prison for plotting to kidnap and kill a suburban businessman using a torture chamber he and an accomplice set up ...