Marni Pyke
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Dist. 156 students could return Tuesday after 8-day strikeOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - McHenry Community High School students should know by late Monday afternoon if life as normal will resume Tuesday after an eight-day teachers' strike. Both sides appeare...
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Visitors fall in love with annual St. Charles Scarecrow FestOct 10, 2015 1:00 am - Coming from tiny Sherman in downstate Illinois, you might think Scott Siders had his fill of pumpkins, cornstalks and hay. But as he hammed it up for a photo Saturday, p...
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Pyke: Volkswagen cheating bomb hits VW owners hardOct 05, 2015 5:30 am - There's nothing like German engineering, except of course when that ingenuity extends to rigging Volkswagens to pass U.S. emissions tests. That harsh reality is dumbfoun...
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Bensenville residents sue Chicago over disruptive jet noiseOct 01, 2015 1:00 am - Bensenville residents fed up with jets that vibrate houses and force outside conversations to be conducted in shouts sued the city of Chicago Thursday claiming the noise...
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Congress might move deadline for train safety system after railroads revoltSep 30, 2015 1:00 am - Amid dire threats of no Metra service or freight train shipments, Congress could be poised to extend a deadline for railroads to install an automatic braking system. Cal...
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Watchdog: FAA ill-prepared for repeat of Aurora sabotageSep 30, 2015 1:00 am - If sabotage that took out a major air traffic control center in Aurora last year occurs again somewhere in the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration will still be ha...
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Pyke: Should two operators be required on crude oil trains?Sep 28, 2015 5:30 am - Suburbanites who fear a train carrying crude oil could derail in their neighborhood aren't alone. Conductors and engineers from across the U.S. spent a day here recently...
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Why you might have Wi-Fi on your Metra train soonSep 25, 2015 1:00 am - Rejoice cautiously, smartphone users - Metra is inching toward a Wi-Fi solution with a pilot program on 10 rail cars debuting later this year. The railroad has talked ab...
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Big closures this weekend should make you think twice about driving downtownSep 25, 2015 1:00 am - Some major expressway hiccups will coincide with a busy Chicago weekend as Cubs fans converge on the city. The Illinois Department of Transportation is installing steel ...
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Would you pay for fast lane on tollways?Sep 24, 2015 11:00 pm - Are you willing to pay for life in the fast lane? Known as congestion pricing or express toll lanes, it's an idea state Transportation Secretary Randy Blankenhorn called...