Cook County
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Northwest suburban residents sought for cancer studySep 04, 2012 4:00 pm - The American Cancer Society is looking for people to take part in a long-term, nationwide cancer prevention study tying genetic information to environmental factors in t...
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Foreign film series opens Friday at ECCSep 04, 2012 2:00 pm - Screen the best in foreign cinema this fall during the Elgin Community College Humanities Center’s International Film Series. Held the first and second Friday of each m...
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German student volunteers at Elgin Wayside CenterSep 04, 2012 8:16 am - Lena Jakobi started volunteering at a food pantry in March in Germany. Her parents didn’t tell her she had to and it wasn’t a requirement at her school. She just felt th...
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Weekend in Review: Courtroom cameras in DuPage, Quinn at DNCSep 04, 2012 5:00 am - DuPage County likely next for courtroom cameras Since January, five circuit courts serving 13 counties have applied for and received the green light for use of came...
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Dawn Patrol: 4-year-old girl dies in crash; ‘Green Mile’ actor diesSep 04, 2012 5:00 am - 4-year-old McHenry County girl dies in crash A 4-year-old McHenry County girl was thrown from her family’s Jeep and killed Sunday night after a car passed through a...
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Wheeling man crashes motorcycle, stalls Route 53 trafficSep 03, 2012 5:29 pm - Traffic on southbound Route 53 south of Lake-Cook Road was shut down for about half an hour Monday afternoon after a single-vehicle motorcycle crash in Palatine, authori...
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Cardinal George says he’s ready for chemotherapySep 03, 2012 9:03 am - Cardinal Francis George, the Chicago-area religious leader who announced last month that cancer had been found in his right kidney and liver, said he feels anxious but r...
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Pressure on Mathias over StoneSep 03, 2012 4:52 am - We were greatly disappointed to hear that state Rep. Sidney Mathias ducked direct questions posed at his Town Hall meeting regarding his collaboration with and support f...
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Kline Creek Farm hosts 1890s version of a country fairSep 02, 2012 10:24 am - The country fair held at Kline Creek Farm in West Chicago over the weekend was about as old-school as you can get. On hand at the sixth annual fair were exhibits and ac...
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Freight train cars derail in Chicago, no injuriesSep 02, 2012 8:59 am - A freight train struck the rear of another freight train in southwest Chicago early Sunday, derailing several rail cars and damaging a third freight train on an adjacent...