Cook County
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Court: City can move cemetery for O'HareSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - A federal appeals court dealt a blow Thursday to opponents of O'Hare International Airport expansion when it ruled a small cemetery near Bensenville could be bulldozed b...
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Six new Cook County West Nile cases confirmedSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Six more cases of the West Nile virus have been confirmed in suburban Cook County, bringing the total number this season to 10. The new cases include a 45-year-old Bart...
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Briefs: NADCA offers die casting manualSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - WHEELING -- The North American Die Casting Association said Wednesday it is releasing a manual to help die casters develop proposals and contracts covering the commercia...
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Longer Ramadan sacrifice, greater blessingsSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Short, easy and breezy fasts that started late and ended early are over for Muslims. For the next decade or so, fasts -- which begin at sunrise, end at sunset and contin...
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Rosemont mayor pitches casino at Rosemont TheatreSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Rosemont Mayor Bradley Stephens Wednesday channeled the vision of his late father, championing a state-run casino and promoting the Rosemont Theatre as its site. When St...
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The elusive muskie -- now at a lake near youSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Dave Parrish has just driven more than 200 miles from the Jake Wolf Memorial Fish Hatchery in western Illinois with 1,000 muskies in a tank on the back of his tr...
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Dist. 211 union may strikeSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Teacher salary negotiations have stalled in Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 and a federal mediator has been requested to break the impasse. "(A strike) is a...
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Dist. 15 takes closer look at bus routesSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Hundreds of complaints from parents have prompted officials at Palatine Township Elementary District 15 to look closer into the new bus route system put in place this ye...
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Chicago mob trial jury to continue mulling murder blameSep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Jurors have already found four aging defendants guilty of decades of loan sharking, gambling extortion and racketeering. Now they've got to decide what roles the four pl...
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Charges in road rage avoidable, police saySep 12, 2007 11:00 pm - Motorists don't have to end up in police custody if they have an urge to rage. Police are advising drivers to keep that in mind after a road rage arrest this week in Bar...