Deborah Donovan
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Arlington Heights parks seek $48 millionFeb 20, 2012 4:30 am - As the Arlington Heights Park District gears up for a series of public meetings on its plan to borrow $48 million to renovate four of its five major parks, two local gro...
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Students choose the 7 wonders of Arlington HeightsFeb 14, 2012 11:00 pm - Arlington Heights' celebration of its 125th anniversary has put a spotlight on the “wonders” of the village. A class project for Mary Goumas' fourth-graders at Patton Sc...
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Staging for the sale is key in a slow housing marketFeb 11, 2012 11:00 pm - Your house might be the cutest on the block, with all your friends saying the living room is to die for. But if you want to sell it in this real estate climate, you need...
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Collector moves log cabin from Wisconsin, piece by pieceFeb 11, 2012 11:00 pm - John White moved an 1840s log cabin to his farm between Batavia and Elburn, and after laboriously rebuilding it, he and his wife, Mary Lou, decorated it with primitive a...
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Arlington Hts. honors Hearts of GoldFeb 10, 2012 11:00 pm - You’ll never convince Kate Costello and her volunteers in the theater department at St. Viator High School or Linda McDonald of the McDonald Dance Academy that performan...
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Arlington Heights apartment complex tenants fight new fee, winFeb 09, 2012 11:00 pm - Tenants in an Arlington Heights apartment complex got so upset over the imposition of a new $25 per month fee that they organized and got a temporary reprieve. Residents...
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Prospect Heights again weighs whether to try home ruleFeb 06, 2012 4:30 am - Home rule communities can impose and raise property taxes that nonhome rule cities cannot, but most come up with other taxes that keep property taxes lower, say experts ...
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Arlington Downs wins board's first vote on projectFeb 05, 2012 11:00 pm - Arlington Downs, the ambitious rental housing and retail complex on the site of the shuttered Sheraton Chicago Northwest, took a huge step Monday when the Arlington Heig...
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Pep up your home with new decor items for springFeb 05, 2012 5:00 am - It's time to get ready for Valentine's Day, but that also means spring is not far behind. Check out the new items we found for your home that can pep it up almost as muc...
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'No way to make sense' of Naperville teacher's slayingFeb 04, 2012 11:00 pm - There is no way to explain how or why a man with an advanced education, a job and no criminal record stands accused of murdering “a great young man,” Naperville Police C...