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Rosemont settlement: pennies on the dollar?Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Among the funds that allowed Cook County Board President Todd Stroger to grant state's attorneys a promised pay increase was an anticipated, but not yet signed, deal wit...
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Shaken Harvard pilot safe after crash landingJul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Shortly after Harvard pilot Thomas Chapman took off for a third time Monday from a small local airport, the engine keeping him airborne started to slow down. Then it jus...
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Kane County DigestJul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Plane lands on school lawn: A Harvard pilot crashed his small plane into a sign at an elementary school Monday morning in Greenwood, north of Woodstock. The pilot, 62-ye...
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Wildfires flare in Montana
Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - HELENA, Mont. -- A trio of fast-moving new wildfires in Montana threatened more than 100 homes and other buildings, and 80 were under evacuation orders, officials said M...
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Batavia considers special tax for downtown districtJul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Batavia could implement a special service area downtown in order to fund parking improvements and the Batavia MainStreet group. The measure would implement a tax on down...
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University of Chicago adds powerpoint to admission tickets
Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - At business meetings the world over, PowerPoint-style presentations are often met with yawns and glazed eyes. But at one of the world's top business schools, such slide ...
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Schaumburg Christian School's volleyball team released from hospitalJul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - All of the people affiliated with the Schaumburg Christian School's girls volleyball team have been released from the hospital after their bus filled with carbon monoxid...
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Fermilab seeks community support for linear colliderJul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - International Linear Collider Fermilab wants community support to build a research machine that puts all the components of the universe under a microscope to show how t...
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Russia endorses Abbas
Jul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - MOSCOW -- Russia considers President Mahmoud Abbas the legitimate leader of the Palestinian people, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday in Moscow's strongest stat...
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Kane reports first West Nile caseJul 30, 2007 11:00 pm - A 46-year-old Elburn woman was identified as the first Kane County resident to be infected with the West Nile virus, the county health department announced Monday. The ...