Cook County
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Briefs: McDonald's sales up 8.1% in AugustSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - OAK BROOK -- McDonald's Corp. Tuesday reported an 8.1 percent rise in August same-store sales, beating analysts' expectations on strong breakfast and beverage sales in t...
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Drive-in owner is on a quest for perfectionSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - It was opening night of one of this summer's biggest movies. But it still felt a little bit like 1961 at West Chicago's Cascade Drive-in. Homer's distinctive yellow gl...
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Hampshire remembers educatorSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Gail Thompson's influence can still be seen in the kindergarten classrooms at Hampshire Elementary School -- 33 years after she started her teaching career at the school...
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Antioch gets both sides of marketplace argumentSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - The normally invisible divide between those embracing Antioch's changing landscape and those resisting the community's rapid growth was clear Tuesday when residents were...
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Roll film: Geneva plans movie festivalSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Do you fancy yourself as talented as the Coen brothers? Is there a "Citizen Kane" in you? Geneva is seeking filmmakers to show works at a film festival Nov. 10. And to i...
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He's up to the challenge of overseeing kitchenSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - While other boys yearned to be firemen or financiers, Robert Packer always wanted to cook. Today, Packer, executive chef at Mundelein's Crowne Plaza Chicago North Shore ...
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Husband of driver in fatal crash involved in own accidentSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - The husband of the Algonquin woman who crashed her SUV into a West Dundee Subway restaurant in March was involved in a mishap Saturday in a bank lot, hitting a parked ca...
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Gaedele achieves goal at ValparaisoSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Kyle Gaedele had a goal when he came to Rolling Meadows as a freshman. The senior achieved his plan of playing Division I baseball Monday night when he made a verbal com...
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Rolling Meadows authorizes cameras at intersectionsSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Rolling Meadows has become the latest suburb to give the green light to traffic cameras. Aldermen on Tuesday night backed a police plan to add 12 cameras around town as...
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Elgin-Larkin soccer match goes to RoyalsSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - According to Larkin boys soccer coach Ken Hall, there were two real differences between Elgin and Larkin as the cross-town rivals met in head to head Upstate Eight Confe...