Kane County
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Bison have field day on defenseDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - Buffalo Grove didn't make a field goal in the final 5 minutes and 30 seconds of Saturday night's Mid-Suburban League boys basketball crossover at Hoffman Estates. The wa...
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A lasting impressionDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - More than 450 Dundee Highlands Elementary pupils made a lasting impression on their school recently, and spent a day getting their hands dirty in the process. The childr...
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Leadership, not insults, needed at countyDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - The rhetoric of Cook County politics has never been particularly inspiring, but it reached Jerry Springer-like depths last week, as commissioners sought in vain ways to ...
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Ready to get out the wordDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - It's not clear if DuPage County Board Chairman Bob Schillerstrom will drive and State's Attorney Joe Birkett will put up the referendum signs this January. Or if Birkett...
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Did special service area lead to foreclosures in Round Lake?Dec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - Round Lake Mayor Bill Gentes says three words are part of the reason for abandoned homes and other potential signs of financial distress in one village subdivision. Thos...
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Postal stamp machines a thing of the past in ElginDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - If you planned on buying postage from the coin-operated stamp machine at the downtown Elgin post office, you'd better come up with a plan B. Officials removed that machi...
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Environmentalism is killing us!Dec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - With the cost of a barrel of crude fast approaching $100 a barrel, I have to ask my fellow Americans when it will be enough for you to do something about it? While I am ...
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Mixed results at Mega DualsDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - Neuqua Valley had a score to settle. The Wildcats' wrestling team had their collective eyes on West Aurora, looking for redemption after the Blackhawks denied them a slo...
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Unlike Old Maid, mom invents card game that sends positive messageDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - Twenty-five years ago when Mary Grace Crowley-Koch was playing the "Old Maid" card game with her young daughter, it dawned on her what a terrible message the popular gam...
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U-46 teachers, board must get fair deal doneDec 01, 2007 10:00 pm - That slight bubbling in the pit of longtime Elgin Area School District U-46 residents' stomachs isn't due to holiday excess. It's the knowledge that an unsettled distric...