Kendall County
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Your new General Assembly, ready for workJan 10, 2011 10:00 pm - Two years ago, lawmakers were sworn in at a January ceremony as they always are. But things changed quickly when, minutes later, new lawmakers took their first vote — to...
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Tea parties offer sympathyJan 09, 2011 12:00 am - Tea party organizations nationwide offered their sympathy Saturday in the wake the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that killed six others and left h...
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Roskam, Giffords radio partnersJan 09, 2011 12:00 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com Congressman Peter Roskam, a Wheaton Republican, and Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, are paired in a Na...
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Man lights truck on fire, throws knives during car showJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - An Oswego man died at the Newark Car Show on Saturday after a fight during which he lit his truck on fire and threw knives at another man, the Kendall County sheriff's o...
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Area lawmakers respond to Arizona shootingJan 07, 2011 10:00 pm - The news made U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk's stomach lurch. While watching football at a Northbrook deli Saturday, Kirk was hit with the news that Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle...
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Police: Teen shot by Aurora officer refused to drop gunJan 07, 2011 10:00 pm - An off-duty Aurora police officer with a passenger in his personal vehicle had to make a life-or death decision Friday afternoon when he saw a boy shooting at a crowd of...
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In face of House vote on repeal, Durbin touts benefits of health care reformJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - At roughly the same time the U.S. House was taking a major vote toward the repeal of health care legislation, Sen. Dick Durbin was at Northwest Community Hospital in Arl...
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Sympathy for that devil Ryan?Jan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - Maybe his family and good buddy Jim “Growing Less Big In Our Eyes Every Day” Thompson know the real George Ryan. But those of us who paid his salary for decades never, e...
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Suburban Democrats still wary of 75% income tax increaseJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — A day after top leaders in Springfield announced the tax-increase plan they'll ask lawmakers to vote on, some suburban Democrats whose support is critical ...
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Property tax change may not help suburban homeownersJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — A plan to deliver property tax relief to Illinoisans in exchange for paying higher income taxes might not help many suburban homeowners, one suburban Repub...