Jake Griffin
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Are you being double-taxed for mosquito control?Jul 13, 2016 5:31 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct that Milton Township residents are only paying one mosquito abatement tax. Only one creature on this planet is...
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Which suburbs tax you more to eat out?Jun 29, 2016 5:32 am - Every Quarter Pounder with Cheese sold at the Hanover Park McDonald's on Lake Street costs 11 cents more than the same burger two miles away in Bloomingdale. Ronald McDo...
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Replica warplanes fill skies above St. CharlesJun 25, 2016 1:00 am - It's as if chainsaws were given wings. The whirring and whizzing of model warplanes looping above a St. Charles cornfield for the past three days sounds more like a busy...
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Are your town's liquor license fees costing you more at the tap?Jun 22, 2016 5:00 am - The first 1,291 pints of pale ale sold each year at Emmett's Brewing Co. in downtown Palatine cover the cost of the $7,425 annual liquor license fee paid to the village....
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Property taxes going up in Cook County suburbsJun 13, 2016 1:00 am - The average homeowner in north and northwest suburban Cook County will see property taxes increase by $110 in the coming year, according to data released by Cook County ...
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Is your school district keeping new teachers' contract secret?Jun 01, 2016 5:11 am - Four suburban school boards are following the same path as Palatine Elementary District 15, approving teachers' contracts before they are final and then failing to make ...
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Legislators approve statewide water quality studyJun 01, 2016 1:00 am - Spurred by reports that more than two-thirds of suburban drinking water systems recorded some levels of lead over the past three years, state legislators approved a requ...
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Collar counties a bright spot as region's population dipsMay 20, 2016 1:00 am - Many Cook County suburbs followed Chicago's lead in losing population last year. But the collar counties fared better, driven by growth in Kane, Kendall, McHenry and Wil...
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$30 ticket if you back into Palatine garage parking spaceMay 18, 2016 5:25 am - Every time police spot a car backed into a space at downtown Palatine's Gateway Center Parking Garage, the driver gets a $30 ticket. It happens more than 200 times a yea...
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Lawmaker seeks state report on lead in waterMay 17, 2016 1:00 am - On the heels of findings that 70 percent of suburban drinking water systems recorded some levels of lead during testing over the past three years, Barrington Hills Repub...