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'Making out like bandits for a good cause'Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Prized sports collectibles were auctioned off Saturday at Elgin Community College to raise money for cancer research. A basketball signed by the University of Tennessee ...
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Book targets what it takes to make library a successOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - I am very concerned about the future of libraries. Specifically, I worry that libraries will not change fast enough to be relevant in a future with information virtually...
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Taylor released from the hospitalOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - A grinning Taylor Radtke was released from a Phoenix hospital Saturday morning, less than 48 hours after an intricate surgery to remove a brain tumor was deemed an overw...
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Man accused of beating boy is jailedOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - A Prospect Heights man accused of beating a teenager with a golf club was ordered held on $75,000 bond Saturday. Mario Vasquez, 34, of 509 Love Drive, faces one charge o...
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Mary Kay employees adapt disabled woman's house iOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Susan Kohn surveyed with wide eyes the small army of painters and carpenters scurrying through her house Saturday. "I never expected anything like this," she said. "I fe...
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Making DuPage a little cleanerOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Four-year-old Caleb Scoles of Roselle was all business Saturday at the East Branch Forest Preserve clean-up effort. He couldn't wait to coax his father, Dan, away from t...
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Not all fires contained, yet
Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. -- Firefighters battled stubborn wildfires across Southern California on Saturday, but cloudy skies scattering occasional raindrops brought a welc...
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Chapter 6: Administrator pay vs. teacher payOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Teachers get fewer apples from students these days, but their paychecks now more than compensate for the loss. Between 1998 and 2006, the average teacher pay in 94 subur...
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Harry Potter, a leftist hero?Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - PARIS, -- Harry Potter -- left-wing hero of the intellectual aristocracy against the materialist middle classes? Well, yes, according to the French daily Liberation. To ...
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Uncertain future between Neumann Homes, GilbertsOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Neumann Homes' announcement this week that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy means an uncertain future for an agreement between the homebuilder, the village of Gilb...