Jake Griffin
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Wide range of rules on what teacher classes taxpayers coverAug 10, 2016 5:30 am - Several Lake Villa Elementary District 41 teachers took an online class last school year called, "Understanding and Dealing with Difficult Parents." It might come in han...
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Suit claims negligence in crash that killed couple, injured daughterAug 04, 2016 1:00 am - Collision last month injured Elk Grove Village woman, killed her parents
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Taxpayers cover $4 million in teachers' college costsAug 03, 2016 5:00 am - Taxpayers in 70 suburban school districts paid more than $4 million last year to send 3,085 teachers back to college. The tuition reimbursement programs are meant to att...
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Each Illinois legislator costs us an average of $100,000 a yearJul 27, 2016 5:00 am - The average Illinois legislator cost taxpayers $99,968 last year. That's according to a new study released by the Illinois Policy Institute today that shows $18,094,238 ...
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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 ...