Cook County
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Prairie Crossing board still bickering despite warningSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - About two weeks ago, state education officials put bickering Prairie Crossing Charter School board members on notice that they must improve their performance. How well t...
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Dist. 89 might ask voters to maintain tax rateSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Glen Ellyn Elementary District 89 board members are expected to decide Monday whether to seek a tax increase on the February 2008 ballot. During a special meeting this w...
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8 residents of home displaced after W. Chicago blazeSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - West Chicago fire officials are investigating the cause of a Tuesday morning blaze that devastated a county-owned housing facility for adults with mental disabilities. M...
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St. Charles school district hires a new legal teamSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - The St. Charles school board is about to get some free legal advice. Six months' worth, actually. The board this week unanimously approved hiring an Arlington Heights-...
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Dist. 120 board making new plans for landSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Three years after it was lauded for buying a local golf course as a possible second campus, the Mundelein High School board plans to keep the links open, possibly indefi...
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Elgin Sports Hall of Fame names 5 inducteesSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - It didn't take Lisa Pawlak long to recall her favorite high school bowling memory. Nor should it have. Pawlak, then Lisa Stack, was the 1995 IHSA state bowling champion,...
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Mobster shouts to jury during closing argumentSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - The day after a jury of seven women and five men found him guilty of racketeering, bookmaking and extortion, Oak Brook mobster Frank Calabrese Sr. hit his boiling poin...
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ECC to offer radio broadcast classSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Denny Farrell, host of the "Original Big Band Showcase" heard on radio and the Internet, will be the guest instructor for an Elgin Community College noncredit course for...
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Walker-Lipov epic to be continuedSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - The sky darkened. The weather got colder. And the audience grew. By the time the No. 1 singles match between Palatine's Katrina Walker and Schaumburg's Sonia Lipov was p...
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Lake County merit semifinalists namedSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Lake County high school students were among 16,000 semifinalists named in the 53rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation ...