Will County
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Will tollway expansion create 120,000 jobs?Aug 26, 2011 12:00 am - A $12 billion capital plan that would create thousands of jobs seems like a panacea for the metropolitan region’s woeful unemployment rate of 10.5 percent. But predictin...
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Prosecutors appeal ruling in Drew Peterson caseAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - Will County State’s Attorney Jim Glasgow says he’ll go to trial against Drew Peterson even if his office loses an appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court. Will County prose...
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Naperville parents plead for son to come homeAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - Parents of a missing 16-year-old Naperville Central High School student said he has been “in a rut lately” and believe he is headed west, possibly to Colorado. Michael C...
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Quinn signs legislation affecting drinking waterAug 25, 2011 12:00 am - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed three bills he says will help conserve and protect drinking water in the state. One bill allows recycled, treated wastewater to be use...
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VA to buy hospital property for clinic in JolietAug 25, 2011 12:00 am - A hospital emergency room in suburban Chicago will be transformed into an outpatient clinic for veterans. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk announced Wednesday that t...
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Glitch leaves local lottery winners without cashAug 24, 2011 12:00 am - The Illinois Lottery could use some of Brian Ringle's luck. A glitch with a new operating system that went live Sunday kept lottery winners from receiving their promised...
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Four years after arrest, man admits to murderAug 24, 2011 12:00 am - Nearly four years after his arrest, the suspect in the death of a suburban Chicago teenager has pleaded guilty to murder charges. Andrew Morrow of Lockport Township was ...
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Trial of Bolingbrook man accused of killing son startsAug 24, 2011 12:00 am - Will County prosecutors say a Bolingbrook man accused in the 2009 death of his 5-month-old son killed the child because his crying disturbed the father’s sleep. Randel T...
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Suburban mayors meet with Mayor EmanuelAug 23, 2011 12:00 am - About 90 mayors, many of them newly elected, from the North, Northwest and West suburbs got to schmooze Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Tuesday during the quarterly business ...
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Naperville Twp. garbage pickup costs to dropAug 23, 2011 12:00 am - Naperville Township has inked an agreement with a company to provide recycling and waster-hauling services — a deal that will cut residents’ garbage collection costs in ...