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Watch out for thorns when looking for Rose Bowl ticketsDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illini fans are urged to be wary of ticket and travel scams as a New Year's Day Rose Bowl showdown with USC draws near. State consumer protection official...
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Religion--Special EventsDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Night of Prayer for Life: St. Mary Catholic Church of Elgin will once again take part in the National Night of Prayer for Life from 8 p.m. to midnight today at the churc...
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Faithful stay close to rootsDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - The Rev. Miguel Martinez makes no qualms about it --staying up for 30 hours to bless and tend to his parishioners for the feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe is exhausting....
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Media mogul Black headed for prison
Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Conrad Black, the brash media mogul who vacationed in Bora Bora, rode around London in a Rolls Royce and ended up convicted of swindling shareholders out of millions of ...
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Trump can't hedge on thisDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Donald Trump's hedge is history. The Rancho Palos Verdes (Calif.) City Council has voted unanimously to order the celebrity mogul to remove a 10-foot-high hedge of ficus...
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5 injured in blaze at Vernon Hills homeDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - A 73-year-old man is in critical condition in the burn unit of Loyola Medical Center after he was trapped in a house fire in Vernon Hills, fire and police officials said...
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Briefs: Man robbed at gunpointDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Schaumburg police were continuing their search Friday for a man who robbed another man at gunpoint. Police said the victim was in a parking lot on the 900 block of East ...
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Briefs: Little help from up northDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - The McHenry County Division of Transportation rushed to the aid of one its peers this week, lending one of its snow plow trucks to Grundy County after it lost its entire...
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Convicted North Aurora rapist gets 24 yearsDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - A convicted rapist was sentenced to 24 years in prison Friday after admitting to getting his teenage daughter's friends drunk and sexually abusing them in his North Auro...
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Impound fee leads to rare disagreement in StreamwoodDec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Streamwood plans to hire more firefighters and police in 2008 -- but how to pay for them has stirred one of the biggest disagreements among local leaders in recent memor...