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Elgin puts $2.8M more in TIF money into mixed-use project after unexpected issuesNov 07, 2023 4:00 am - Elgin will kick in an additional $2.84 million from a special taxing district to help developers transform a 130-year-old downtown office building into a mixed-use apart...
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Veto session last bet on lifting Illinois' nuclear ban this yearNov 07, 2023 4:00 am - During this week's veto session starting Tuesday, the state legislature will decide the ultimate fate of a bill that would enable the construction of new nuclear reactor...
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Mount Prospect village board goes 'on the road' for Nov. 14 meetingNov 07, 2023 12:00 am - The Mount Prospect village board will holding its next committee-of-the-whole meeting "on the road" at 6 p.m. Nov. 14, at Holmes Junior High, 1900 Lonnquist Blvd. Each q...
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'New mission': DuPage County expands task force to tackle mental health, substance use issuesNov 07, 2023 12:00 am - In her first budget address, DuPage County Board Chairwoman Deborah Conroy unveiled an "ambitious transformation" of an opioid crisis task force formed more than five ye...
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Law and order and the economy are focus of the British government's King's Speech
Nov 07, 2023 12:00 am - LONDON - Britain's Conservative government set out a pre-election policy slate including tougher sentences for criminals and promises of elusive economic growth at the g...
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Officials: No one injured in Palatine house fire likely caused by space heaterNov 07, 2023 12:00 am - A two-story Palatine home was left uninhabitable by a fire Tuesday morning that officials believe was started by a space heater in a bedroom. No one was injured in the b...
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Palatine American Legion seeks donations for sailors' Thanksgiving dinnerNov 07, 2023 12:00 am - American Legion Post 690 in Palatine is seeking donations for its Adopt-A-Sailor dinner, when sailors from Great Lakes Naval Station will visit the Legion hall for a Tha...
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Geneva panel recommends $400K contract for police body-worn cameras
Nov 07, 2023 12:00 am - Geneva City Council members, acting as the committee of the whole, unanimously agreed on Monday to recommend spending more than $400,000 for police to have body-worn cam...
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Civilians fleeing northern Gaza's combat zone report a terrifying journey on foot past Israeli tanks
Nov 07, 2023 12:00 am - BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - What was once Gaza's busiest thoroughfare has become a terrifying escape route for Palestinian civilians fleeing combat on foot or on d...
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Blinken seeks G-7 unity on Israel-Hamas war among items on crisis-heavy global agenda
Nov 07, 2023 12:00 am - TOKYO - Fresh from a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shifted his intense diplomacy on the Israel-Hamas war to Asia on Tuesday w...