Matt Arado
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Nekritz ‘grateful to the voters’Nov 06, 2012 5:00 am - State Rep. Elaine Nekritz appeared Tuesday to have hung onto her seat in the 57th House District. With 63 of 65 Cook County precincts counted, unofficial vote totals sho...
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Link easily retains seat in state SenateNov 06, 2012 5:00 am - State Sen. Terry Link, a Waukegan Democrat, won re-election handily in the 60th Senate District on Tuesday, garnering more than two-thirds of the vote in Lake County pre...
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Mayfield easily retains 60th House seatNov 06, 2012 5:00 am - State Rep. Rita Mayfield, a Democrat from Waukegan, won re-election in Illinois’ 60th House District handily Tuesday. With all 51 precincts counted, unofficial vote tota...
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Mount Prospect Park District leader retiringOct 31, 2012 2:39 pm - Walter Cook said that after more than 30 years of service to the Mount Prospect Park District, he felt it was time to move on. Cook, the district’s chief executive offic...
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Music notes: Reunited Asia plays the ArcadaOct 30, 2012 10:30 am - Prog popsters The progressive-pop band Asia emerged in the early 1980s and featured vets from a number of legendary prog-rock bands of the day like Yes and Emerson,...
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Downtown Naperville gets into the Halloween spiritOct 28, 2012 11:00 am - Hordes of little ninjas, superheroes, monsters and princesses prowled downtown Naperville Sunday to enjoy a variety of Halloween-themed activities. It seemed like someth...
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Mount Prospect students march against bullyingOct 24, 2012 3:24 pm - The walkers cheered. They chanted. They held up signs that said “Be a Defender!” and “Bullying is not cool!” Students and teachers at Lions Park Elementary School in Mou...
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Music notes: Go totally Tube-ular at Viper AlleyOct 24, 2012 6:00 am - MTV faves The Tubes, the outrageous rock band that scored hits such as “White Punks on Dope,” “Talk to Ya Later” and “She's a Beauty” in the 1970s and 1980s, will m...
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57th House candidates discuss tax credits, income taxOct 22, 2012 5:30 am - The recent state income tax hike is scheduled to sunset on Jan. 1, 2015, but one candidate in the Illinois 57th House District race would like to repeal it even sooner. ...
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Duo brings Civil War music to life in Glen EllynOct 21, 2012 6:17 pm - There were roughly 10,000 songs written and published during the Civil War era. Some were rousing calls to battle. Some were somber reflections on the war’s human toll. ...