Cook County
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Make taxpayers part of pension solutionMay 19, 2012 5:00 am - For decades the state of Illinois has abdicated its contractual responsibility to fund the state’s pension systems. State legislators and governors, instead, decided to ...
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Something to celebrateMay 19, 2012 4:40 am - Often when I open the Sunday Daily Herald I see, but do not open, the section “Celebrate.” I was once — a very long time ago — a groom, but probably not expecting to kno...
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Make a commitment and honor itMay 19, 2012 4:40 am - I appreciate Gov. Quinn’s letter in the May 13 Chicago Tribune telling us that we should honor our mothers by saving our state. I sometimes think my mom has more common ...
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8 years of Obama? I don’t think soMay 19, 2012 4:40 am - In Fence Post May 16, Mr. Kirkland states that we are “most certainly” better of that we were four years ago. Well, Mr. Kirkland, I want some of your Kool-Aid to drink. ...
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Plaza makes first-team All-N4C for HarperMay 18, 2012 6:44 pm - Harper’s baseball program landed three players on the North Central Community College All-Conference team. Sophomore pitcher Scott Plaza (Prospect) earned first-team ho...
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Schaumburg Boomers owner to co-own another teamMay 18, 2012 5:54 pm - On the very day the Schaumburg Boomers baseball team began its inaugural season on the road, owner Patrick Salvi Friday announced that he’d become a partner in a collegi...
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Elgin in 4 months, not just a dayMay 18, 2012 3:19 pm - Elgin’s 7th annual community photography event is getting a fundamental redesign this year. Elgin 1440 started in 2006 asking photographers to submit photos from a sing...
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Video of drone flying over Elgin appears bogusMay 18, 2012 1:03 pm - A video that’s going viral on YouTube shows what the poster purports to be a surveillance drone flying over Elgin. In the 41-second video, published May 13, you se...
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Police: Elgin man tried to rape girl, 10, then her adult cousin who stopped assaultMay 18, 2012 11:00 am - An Elgin man is accused of trying to rape a 10-year-old, and when the girl's adult cousin saw it and stopped it he raped her at knife point after she refused $500 in hus...
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Federal Reserve has ruined economyMay 18, 2012 10:44 am - The NATO summit will soon take place and the protesters will be out in force. It’s important that they not only protest peacefully, but they should do so intelligently. ...