Cook County
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Obama making news about wrong thingsMar 13, 2012 4:00 am - The current administration has given $500 million to Solyndra, which has gone bankrupt. And $49.5 billion to bail out General Motors. President Obama just days ago was t...
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Obama’s oil policy misses the markMar 13, 2012 4:00 am - President Obama and his spokesman, Jay Carney, continue to take credit that we have produced more oil this year than in several years. While this is true, it has nothing...
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Barrington to hire geographic info. coordinatorMar 12, 2012 9:41 pm - Barrington officials Monday created the position of a part-time geographic information systems coordinator to replace the services the village had received from a GIS an...
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Expert says U-46 gifted programs were discriminatoryMar 12, 2012 6:29 pm - A gifted education expert testified in federal court Monday during the continuation of the racial bias lawsuit against Elgin Area School District U-46 that the policies ...
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Cook County judge suspended after altercationMar 12, 2012 6:16 pm - A Cook County judge has been barred from judicial duties after her arrest during a confrontation with two sheriff’s deputies after acting erratically last week. The Circ...
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Barrington Celtic Fest returns March 16-17Mar 12, 2012 4:15 pm - The Barrington Celtic Fest is returning to the village Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17. The two-day festival will begin at 11 a.m. both days. A huge heated tent...
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Des Plaines officer’s disciplinary hearing delayedMar 12, 2012 3:34 pm - A Des Plaines fire and police commission disciplinary hearing scheduled Monday for one of two police officers the city wants to fire has been postponed to March 26. The ...
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Northrop Grumman delivers new technologyMar 12, 2012 1:01 pm - Northrop Grumman Corp. of Rolling Meadows announced the recent production and delivery of the 100th Litening G4 targeting pod. Litening G4 is currently in full produ...
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Tax levies up 48% from 2000 across Cook CountyMar 12, 2012 12:00 pm - A new study indicates Cook County's 550-plus taxing bodies combined to increase their collective property tax levies by 48 percent between 2000 and 2010. The Chicago-bas...
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Harper student has designs on future in fashion industryMar 12, 2012 11:00 am - Ali Forsythe was back in a Harper College workroom last week, laboring alongside other students in constructing a pattern for leggings, one of the basic requirements in ...