Cook County
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Stevenson High School honored for music educationDec 14, 2011 11:00 pm - Stevenson High School has been named a semifinalist in a national music-education contest. The Lincolnshire school is one of 125 schools from across the nation selected...
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Des Plaines bids farewell to bookmobileDec 14, 2011 11:00 pm - After more than 42 years of service, the Des Plaines Public Library's bookmobile will quietly fade into the pages of history this weekend. The mobile library is making ...
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Life's challenges helped ECC student evolveDec 14, 2011 11:00 pm - The first year of college is challenging for many freshmen: unfamiliar classmates and teachers, new surroundings and lots of coursework. But few have had to overcome the...
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Christina Mitchell rejoins WCNCB as development managerDec 14, 2011 11:00 pm - Christina Mitchell has recently rejoined the Woodfield Chicago Northwest Convention Bureau as partnership development manager, where she is expected to build working rel...
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Wheeling police warn of ruse burglariesDec 14, 2011 11:00 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Dawn Patrol: Accident closes Bartlett road, help for Island Lake twinDec 14, 2011 10:00 pm - Breaking News: Accident closes Bartlett road Army Trail Road in Bartlett has been shut down by police due to a major accident with injuries at Route 59, officials r...
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Dawn Patrol: Ex-judge's DUI case, Sears to Quinn, 2 killed in Des PlainesDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - Tax breaks package on to Gov. Quinn It is up to Gov. Pat Quinn whether a massive package of tax breaks will become law after the passage by both the Senate and House. T...
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Obama shares blame for committee failureDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - Like many Americans, I am not surprised that the “supercommittee” couldn’t rise to the challenge. However, unlike Eugene Robinson, who places the blame squarely on Repub...
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Insider information tempting CongressDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - Steve Kroft did a nice piece on “60 Minutes Overtime” about insider trading on Capitol Hill. Al Lewis, a columnist for Dow Jones Wire, wrote a similar article about the ...
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Monkeys might as well run governmentDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - Every government run by humans has eventually failed. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and now? Perhaps we should think about turning over the role of government to...