Jake Griffin
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Nine Cook County judges to be hired despite lighter caseloadsApr 02, 2012 11:00 pm - Cook County will hire nine associate judges at a cost of $2.1 million in the first year, even though the current 415 judges already have caseloads lighter than the state...
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Hoffman Estates fire pension board delays buying iPadsMar 28, 2012 5:30 am - A suburban firefighters pension board votes to buy members iPads. A suburban township board finds a loophole to keep a resident's request to vote on health care coverage...
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More Illinois judges, required raises mean we pay 29% more in 8 yearsMar 27, 2012 11:00 pm - Despite declining caseloads, stagnant population and the state's growing deficit, Illinois taxpayers will spend about $39 million more on judicial salaries this year tha...
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Cardinal George helps St. Joseph’s mark 100 yearsMar 24, 2012 6:58 pm - For 100 years, Round Lake’s St. Joseph’s Catholic Church has been a bastion of faith for a diverse group of parishioners. The parish started with immigrant German farmer...
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Walsh making ‘Obamacare’ centerpiece of re-election bidMar 24, 2012 3:04 pm - A day after the two-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s signing, Republican Congressman Joe Walsh said repealing the law he and other op...
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Forest preserves spring into action to open earlyMar 19, 2012 6:02 pm - As the mild winter transitions into an early spring, many suburban residents have found their way to local forest preserves to enjoy a rare warm March outdoors. While fo...
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Township lobbying staff receiving public pensionsMar 13, 2012 11:00 pm - Though it's funded almost entirely by townships out of their tax collections, the lobbying association of the state's townships is not subject to public scrutiny of its ...
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Tax levies up 48% from 2000 across Cook CountyMar 12, 2012 12:00 pm - A new study indicates Cook County's 550-plus taxing bodies combined to increase their collective property tax levies by 48 percent between 2000 and 2010. The Chicago-bas...
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Shatner treks to Chicago for one-man showMar 11, 2012 6:00 am - William Shatner is sick, but he refuses to admit it. "We'll call it early morning stuffiness," he hoarsely growled via phone from New York City - at 2:30 in the afterno...
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Men at Work frontman now successful troubadourMar 09, 2012 5:00 am - In the old days, they would have called Colin Hay a troubadour. And he would have traveled from town to town on a steed, guitar strapped to his chest, regaling those he...