Cook County
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$100K grants to support Illinois businesses led by minoritiesJan 18, 2023 10:00 pm - Founders First CDC, a national 501(c) 3 nonprofit, has opened its Chicago Job Creators Quest Grant application. It will remain open through Feb. 8. Twenty-five grants to...
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Cook County homeowners to get $47 million in property tax refundsJan 18, 2023 12:00 am - Cook County homeowners who overpaid their property tax bill last year can expect to receive automatic refunds over the next three months. More than $47 million in overpa...
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Suburban cold cases solved and unsolved: How DNA has played a role so farJan 13, 2023 4:00 am - Despite thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews and untold hours of investigation, it took nearly a decade - and a couple of strokes of luck - for police to arrest th...
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Sheriffs draw lines at what they will - and will not - enforce with new weapons lawJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg had a message for gun owners concerned about Illinois' new ban on the purchase, sale and manufacture of some high-powered weapons and l...
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Schneider's office to collect Valentines for veteransJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - For the seventh year, U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider's office will collect and distribute Valentine's Day cards to local veterans, his office announced Friday. Those intereste...
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Cook County property transfers for Nov. 8 to Dec. 12, 2023Jan 13, 2023 12:00 am - Arlington Heights $720,000; 124 S Walnut Ave., Arlington Heights; Sold on Nov. 21, 2022, by Nicholas Vittore to Kyle Mcdonald $372,500; 815 S Dryden Place, Arlington Hei...
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Top crime stories of 2022: Mayhem and heartbreak defined the year in suburban crimeJan 12, 2023 5:00 am - A mass shooting on July 4 in Highland Park, during which a lone shooter stood atop a building firing nearly 90 rounds at parade spectators and participants, shocked the ...
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Harper professor's new book looks at Illinois statehoodJan 08, 2023 10:00 pm - A lifelong passion for Illinois history, research, storytelling and teaching is embodied in the new book "Avenues of Transformation, Illinois's Path from Territory to St...
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Cook County property transfers for Nov. 16 to Dec. 6, 2022Jan 06, 2023 12:00 am - Arlington Heights $539,500; 1454 E Northwest Hwy., Arlington Heights; Sold on Nov. 17, 2022, by Carlyle At Stonegate Development to Andrea D Andrews $515,000; 307 E Lynn...
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'Unprecedented opportunity': Chicago, suburbs team up for 7-county economic partnershipJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - Leaders from throughout the seven-county Chicago area gathered Wednesday to announce the creation of a Greater Chicagoland Economic Partnership through which they pledge...