Jake Griffin
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Shoppers paid extra $1 billion in local sales taxesFeb 25, 2015 4:30 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct information about how Batavia became a home-rule community. Shoppers in Illinois paid more than $1 billion in ...
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Roselle man accused of pimping while out on bail in sex abuse caseFeb 13, 2015 12:00 am - A 24-year-old Roselle man is accused of pimping teenage girls throughout the suburbs while free on bail as he awaited trial for sexually abusing a different teenage girl...
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Your Illinois license won't be enough to flyFeb 11, 2015 4:30 am - An Illinois driver's license might not be enough identification to get you onto a commercial flight beginning next year. That's because state-issued driver's licenses do...
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COD president Breuder chose against guaranteed pensionJan 28, 2015 4:30 am - How COD president's pension could have been even higher
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Griffin: Municipal retirees' insurance cost taxpayers millionsJan 21, 2015 4:30 am - More than 2,100 former employees in 57 suburbs cost taxpayers almost $16.5 million in health insurance costs last year. Experts expect that figure to rise steeply as mor...
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Blackhawks reporter Mike Spellman mourned as life of the press boxJan 21, 2015 12:00 am - Anyone who ever met him has a Mike Spellman story. There are the Christmas cards with his face expertly Photoshopped onto an Irish dancer's body. There was the time he s...
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Neighbors foot tax bill for North Central College president's homeJan 07, 2015 4:00 am - Before it became North Central College President Troy Hammond's home in 2013, the house at 409 E. Chicago Ave. in Naperville was responsible for more than $30,000 a year...
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How to find public information in IllinoisJan 01, 2015 6:30 am - If you're looking for information from one of Illinois' nearly 7,000 units of government, there's a good chance you can find it on its website. Government agencies have ...
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Palatine Marine returns home, feted at Christian Liberty AcademyDec 20, 2014 12:01 am - Phil and Ann Kwiatkowski got one of the best Christmas presents parents with a child in the military can receive. Their oldest son Stephen ended his four-year hitch in ...
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Christmas celebration for families of Lake County inmatesDec 20, 2014 12:01 am - Mary Lacey has organized a holiday event at the Lake County jail for several years now to help families of those who are behind bars at Christmastime as well as other ne...