Jake Griffin
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Giving DuPage rallies volunteers for 9/11 workSep 09, 2009 11:00 pm - When President Obama signed the Serve America Act in April that designated Sept. 11 a national day of service and remembrance, DuPage County was ready. Since the second ...
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DuPage ethics ordinance doesn't go far enough for someSep 08, 2009 11:00 pm - The first draft of changes to DuPage County's ethic ordinance don't go as far as some board members would like. While it proposes protections for whistle-blowers, requir...
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DuPage revenue down, but so are expensesSep 08, 2009 11:00 pm - It was equal parts good news and bad news at Tuesday's budget update during the DuPage County Board's finance committee meeting. Finance Director Fred Backfield reported...
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Naperville, DuPage squabble with water commissionSep 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Naperville and DuPage County officials are squaring off against the DuPage Water Commission over the cost of relocating a water main to accommodate a road widening proje...
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Young Aurora tagger punished by cleaning up own graffitiSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Marcus Allen began his Labor Day weekend performing free labor for the city of Aurora. The 16-year-old spent part of his Friday afternoon painting over graffiti he had s...
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Villa Park trustee involved in road rage incidentSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - An admonishment from a passing car sparked a road rage incident between two Lombard siblings and a Villa Park trustee. First-term trustee Jeff Blankensop was waiting to ...
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Sex offenders accidentally allowed to live too close to Lombard parkSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Two convicted child sex offenders have been living near a Lombard park because it didn't appear on a map used by police to register the offenders' addresses. Child sex o...
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DuPage volunteer's 'beeswax' nets state honorSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - What goes on inside 15 hives at Kline Creek Farm near West Chicago is, in fact, Lawrence DuBose's beeswax. It's been that way for the past 26 years when he first approac...
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Itasca nursing home worker gets probation in neglect deathAug 31, 2009 11:00 pm - A certified nursing assistant was sentenced Monday to probation and the six months of jail she's already served for neglecting an elderly patient who died and then lying...
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Aurora teen to be tried as adult for murderAug 30, 2009 11:00 pm - An Aurora teenager charged with murder will be tried as an adult in connection with a June shooting that left one man dead and two others injured. Christopher Contreras,...