Kane County
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Bartlett's new train station on trackSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The Metra station in downtown Bartlett dates back to 1873, making it the oldest operating depot on the line. It's a distinction officials have been looking to drop for y...
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Police beatSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Geneva • Joseph M. Nathan, 18, of 227½ N. First St., was charged with retail theft after stealing a box of Claritin tablets, valued at $11.49, Saturday morning from Rile...
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New Fox Valley parks leader eyes riverfront open spaceSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Fox Valley Park District's new board president says her main priorities are to preserve open space along the riverfront and continue to care for Aurora's inner-city park...
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Study finds we lose 2 days a year to commutingSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - What would you do with an extra 46 hours this year? Relax with the family? Extend that vacation? Sleep in? Instead, you spend that much time or more sitting in the car s...
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Jail filled to over-capacity, sheriff saysSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Former California governor Jerry Brown once theorized that "the volume of paperwork expands to fill the available briefcases." The Lake County variation of that theory m...
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Iowa man indicted for sending pipe bombs to investment firmsSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The Iowa man accused of mailing two dud pipe bombs from Rolling Meadows to investment companies in hopes of driving up stock prices has been indicted on federal securiti...
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Acts sought for downtown Geneva music daySep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Shopping in downtown Geneva could soon have a soundtrack of its own. The Geneva Cultural Arts Commission wants musicians to play in public areas throughout the district....
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O.J. memorabilia not exactly going like hotcakesSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The personal memorabilia O.J. Simpson tried to retrieve from a Las Vegas hotel room last week may have had some value. Most other Simpson memorabilia? Not so much. Exper...
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Ex-trustee candidate convictedSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - A one-time candidate for Carpentersville village board was convicted on assault and disorderly conduct charges Tuesday. Kane County Judge Susan Clancy Boles found Frank ...
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No physical ties to crime, attorney saysSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Virginia Johannessen was a 75-year-old widow and pack rat who had decades worth of newspapers, books and other items stacked in piles that resembled a maze in her Aurora...