Jake Griffin
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DuPage Co. Board chairman hopefuls lob accusations of wasteJan 24, 2010 10:00 pm - It may be hard to campaign on a platform of eliminating government waste if the candidate earned $3,000 to lead a committee that met for less than 10 hours during the co...
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Lisle man dead after car hit by train in WheatonJan 20, 2010 10:00 pm - A 70-year-old Lisle man died Thursday morning after a freight train struck his car in Wheaton, police said. Police said H. Thomas Powers was pronounced dead after being ...
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Wheaton College fire victim loved learningJan 20, 2010 10:00 pm - Mark Groesch had found happiness at Wheaton College. "He loved school," his mother Lu Ann Groesch said. "He loved learning, and this was the happiest he had ever been." ...
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Plea deal reached in Bloomingdale mechanic's murderJan 19, 2010 10:00 pm - A 24-year-old Chicago man who admitted to police he beat a Bloomingdale mechanic to death "until his arm was tired" will spend the next half of his life behind bars. Tim...
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Wheaton fire victim identified as college studentJan 19, 2010 10:00 pm - A 28-year-old Wheaton College graduate student was identified by the school as the victim of this weekend's fatal fire. According to the college's Web site, Mark Groesch...
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Judge orders embattled shelter Pet Rescue to transfer animalsJan 19, 2010 10:00 pm - A DuPage County judge Tuesday ordered the operators of a controversial animal shelter in Bloomingdale to begin transferring the nearly 200 animals being housed there imm...
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District 4 GOP candidates question DuPage County Board budgetJan 18, 2010 10:00 pm - Neither Republican candidate seeking the DuPage County Board District 4 seat has much faith in the county's current budget. Both remain skeptical about forecasts calling...
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St. James development plan focuses on horses, trails and sculpturesJan 17, 2010 10:00 pm - With 607 open acres to play with, it might have taken DuPage County Forest Preserve planners longer than three years to sculpt a future for the district's most recent ac...
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DuPage water commission seeking leaderJan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - In the midst of a financial crisis and facing the fiscal year's end with the need for a new budget looming, the DuPage Water Commission began discussing hiring a full-ti...
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Family says no need for cops to shoot Lombard manJan 13, 2010 10:00 pm - The family of a Lombard man gunned down by police Monday after a slow-speed chase through Franklin Park says police acted hastily against a man with no history of violen...