Cook County
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Des Plaines man sentenced in murder-for-hire plotOct 24, 2014 1:01 am - A 51-year-old Des Plaines man was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison after pleading guilty in July to attempting to hire a hitman to kill his estranged wife and h...
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Quinn orders 21-day quarantine for Ebola patient contactsOct 24, 2014 1:01 am - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced Friday that he has ordered the Illinois Department of Public Health to require a mandatory 21-day home quarantine for "high-risk" indiv...
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Dawn Patrol: Joe Biden in Vernon Hills; Batavia police seek cop attackerOct 23, 2014 5:01 am - Hundreds fill Vernon Hills gym to see Vice President Biden An estimated 750 people packed the Sullivan Center's gym yesterday afternoon in Vernon Hills for Vice Pre...
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Inmate charged with murder just before he was to be releasedOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - On the day he was scheduled to leave prison after serving a five-year sentence for burglary, a suburban man found out he was charged in the stabbing death of a woman 12 ...
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Report: Cause of suburban plane crash that killed 3 unknownOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - TOPEKA, Kan. - A preliminary report says a small plane that crashed in the South suburbs was nearly vertical to the ground when it went down, killing three Kansas physic...
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Search in serial killing case comes up emptyOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - Authorities who learned that a man who confessed to killing several women whose bodies were found in abandoned buildings in Indiana may have traveled to the South suburb...
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Suit: Teacher's firing from Dist. 300 retaliatoryOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - A former first-grade teacher at a West Dundee school claims in a lawsuit she was fired after complaining that a special needs student was hurting other students and no o...
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Officials rethink vote-counting after attorney general decreeOct 23, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - With less than two weeks until Illinois' high-stakes elections, an attorney general opinion has some officials rethinking vote-counting procedures in ways ...
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Dawn Patrol: 2 passengers into O'Hare monitored; Biden in Vernon HillsOct 22, 2014 5:01 am - Two passengers into O'Hare quarantined with Ebola-like symptoms Two patients are being monitored in isolation at the University of Chicago Medical Center and Rush U...
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Griffin: Some residents taxed twice for sheriff patrolsOct 22, 2014 4:30 am - Taxpayers living in the unincorporated parts of Bloomingdale, Wayne and York townships in DuPage County are on the hook for an extra $108,000 per township next year to p...