Jake Griffin
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Hoffman Estates couple indicted on tax evasion chargesFeb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - A Hoffman Estates couple is facing tax evasion charges after federal prosecutors said they created a shell company to file a fake mortgage on their home and filed a fals...
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DuPage County sex offender gets 35-year sentenceFeb 15, 2012 11:00 pm - A 49-year-old former DuPage County man who has been a registered sex offender since 2005 was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison stemming from a new child pornograph...
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State grants to libraries will pay for technology, other upgradesFeb 14, 2012 11:00 pm - With the state of Illinois still mired in a financial morass, many library officials weren’t counting on the annual grants distributed by Secretary of State Jesse White....
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Why Legislators rarely know cost of laws they passFeb 07, 2012 10:00 pm - If you add up the financial impact reports accompanying 650 new laws passed by the Illinois General Assembly last year, it looks like legislators saved taxpayers more th...
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Dryer causes Island Lake bowling alley fireFeb 03, 2012 11:00 pm - Wauconda Fire District officials are blaming chemicals on unwashed material for a fire that started in a dryer at an Island Lake bowling alley Saturday. Battalion Chief ...
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Where are DuPage's $28 million emergency radios?Feb 01, 2012 4:30 am - Nearly six years have gone by and almost $17 million has been spent, but 65 DuPage County public safety agencies are still waiting for a radio system that will allow the...
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Dold to hold round-table on suburban heroin issueJan 28, 2012 7:00 am - U.S. Congressman Bob Dold is holding a round-table Monday in Waukegan with several Lake County government and law enforcement officials to discuss ways to raise awarenes...
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Preckwinkle calls for major changes at morgueJan 25, 2012 11:00 pm - Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle not only wants wholesale changes to operational procedures at the overcrowded county morgue, but also among the 97 people em...
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Duffy looks to eliminate legislative committee stipendsJan 23, 2012 11:00 pm - Despite the Illinois legislature's two-year self-imposed salary cuts, Lake Barrington Republican state Sen. Dan Duffy wants to cut deeper. Citing the findings of a June ...
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Weekend Cook County court closings under scrutinyJan 17, 2012 11:00 pm - A proposal to have Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans present alternatives to closing the county’s suburban courthouses on weekends is headed for a county board commi...