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New Schaumburg rules no fun for playhousesDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - It'll no longer be all fun and games for Schaumburg's playhouses and tree houses if newly recommended restrictions are approved next week. Based on a recent complaint ag...
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Shooting Star suspect pleads guilty to theft of treasured Algonquin statueDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Algonquin's 70-year-old Shooting Star statue was damaged when it was stolen in June 2006, but was recovered and is being repaired. An Algonquin man whose drunken prank ...
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New Orleans-style benefit helps Crescent City residentDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - The Albright Theatre presents "A Night to RE-New Orleans (one family at a time)," a benefit for Linda Jackson of the lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. The show will be h...
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Singers to join college chorusDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - John Gorecki and Christopher Scarpulla, both of Elk Grove Village, and Patrick Nakamura of Buffalo Grove were selected to sing in the 2007-08 edition of the Millikin Men...
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Collision causes massive oil spill off S. Korea coast
Dec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - SEOUL, South Korea -- A crane-carrying vessel collided with an oil tanker off of South Korea's west coast on Friday, spilling more than 66,000 barrels of crude oil in wh...
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Garage band makes goodDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Dave VerLee and Robb Leu weren't looking for their 15 minutes of fame -- they just wanted to do something cool at their school's talent show. But this one-night-only eng...
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Rotary gets $200 million grant to help fight polioDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Rotary International recently announced a partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that will inject a much-needed $200 million into the global campaign to ...
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Unsolved missing person cases show disparity in media coverage
Dec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - If not for the media's obsession with a missing white mother, police in Joliet might never have identified the 14-year-old black girl whose burned body was found in a pa...
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Therapist needed: Must have flak jacketDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Do you know a good therapist with thick skin who's willing to jump into the increasingly nasty frays at the Huntley school board and Carpentersville village boar...
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Blagojevich: Health care lawsuit 'Scrooge-like'
Dec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Gov. Rod Blagojevich said it is "Scrooge-like" for a wealthy businessman to try to stop the expansion of a government health care program by claiming it is unconstitutio...