Kerry Lester
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Why do houses explode?Jul 20, 2017 5:30 am - Usually it's a gas leak, but how would you know?
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Lester: Suburban caregivers get small boost in pay, but fight wages onJul 17, 2017 5:30 am - After frequent stories of caregivers earning around $10 an hour even after years of work, suburban aides who care for people with disabilities are getting a pay raise. ...
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From vacation in Wisconsin, Libertyville woman learned her home had explodedJul 13, 2017 1:00 am - From her northern Wisconsin vacation home, Donna Bailey was checking weather reports of flooding back home in Lake County when the phone rang with the most unfathomable ...
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Schools still waiting to see if they'll get money from stateJul 12, 2017 5:00 am - Amid the relief that lawmakers passed an Illinois budget for the first time in two years, one key provision has been overlooked: Schools won't get state dollars unless R...
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Retailers win another round against Cook County 'soda tax'Jul 10, 2017 1:00 am - Retailers won another round Monday in their attempt to keep a Cook County tax on sugary beverages from going into effect. The Illinois Appellate Court upheld a temporary...
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Discovery in abandoned warehouse resurrects detailed copies of Constitution, DeclarationJul 01, 2017 1:00 am - A trove of antique plates once used to reprint the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and recently found in a Rockford-area warehouse, could be sold to c...
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Lester: What a property tax freeze would cost suburban schoolsJun 29, 2017 5:30 am - A property tax freeze would cost schools in the collar counties up to $360 million by 2019, and $830 million for schools statewide, a new report finds. The Center for T...
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Illinois Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno latest to resignJun 29, 2017 1:00 am - Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno became the latest in a long list of moderate suburbanites to leave the Illinois legislature as she announced her resignation, ...
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Lester: Sox's Abreu befriends special needs man from SchaumburgJun 25, 2017 1:00 am - Carole and Chester Brock of Schaumburg brought up their six children to love one another and baseball, so it only seemed natural for family members to attend a White Sox...
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Census: Suburbs are getting older, more diverseJun 22, 2017 5:00 am - The suburbs have an older, more diverse population than in 2010, a new report by the U.S. Census Bureau says. The report released Thursday showed the number of retiremen...