Jake Griffin
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Longtime residents donate Arlington Heights' Christmas treeNov 11, 2015 12:00 am - Since moving into the family's Arlington Heights home, Helga Stephansen has watched the sapling she and her husband Charles planted in their side yard 33 years ago grow ...
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Why Explorer post was easy target for GliniewiczNov 08, 2015 6:30 am - Among the surprise developments in the death of Fox Lake Police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz announced last week was that he had pilfered a "five-figure amount" from th...
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Naperville's Healing Field spotlights Vietnam vetsNov 07, 2015 12:00 am - When Jim Oftedal left for Vietnam in the last days of spring 1968, he was a 21-year-old Army specialist and a husband with a child on the way. When he returned home a ye...
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Hundreds of thousands spent on Gliniewicz investigationNov 05, 2015 12:00 am - In the early days of the investigation into Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz's death, neighboring jurisdictions offered almost unfettered assistance of manp...
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How investigators determined Gliniewicz killed himselfNov 04, 2015 12:00 am - In the beginning, it was the unthinkable. So implausible, in fact, that it would be weeks before the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force even began seriously considering...
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Why Lake County employee health bonuses cost taxpayers $167,373Nov 03, 2015 12:00 am - When Lake County's annual 5K run got underway last year it cost taxpayers an additional $11,850. That's because 237 government employees registered for the race and rece...
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College of DuPage legal fees hit $1.3 million in three monthsOct 27, 2015 1:00 am - Attorneys working for the College of DuPage were paid $1.3 million during a recent three-month span, nearly six times the college's combined legal expenses in the three ...
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Why school districts are spending bus taxes elsewhereOct 21, 2015 5:22 am - One of the smallest school districts in DuPage County bused just 429 students last year, but the cost to taxpayers to bus those students was one of the highest. That's b...
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Cubs bloggers riding wave of hopeOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - Even with Cubs blue running through his veins, Jacob Misener took a job with a minor-league affiliate of his favorite team's archrival St. Louis Cardinals while in colle...
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Rolling Meadows man pleads guilty in Uber fightOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - A 20-year-old Rolling Meadows man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony count of criminal property damage that stemmed from a fight with an Uber driver in June. Alan Slawso...