Robert Sanchez
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Lombard keeps ban on video gamblingJun 20, 2014 1:00 am - Lombard's ban on video gambling won't be going away anytime soon. Responding to feedback from residents, the village board on Thursday night decided to keep the ban, whi...
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Four DuPage towns get state loans for clean water projectsJun 19, 2014 1:01 am - Four DuPage County towns will receive nearly $69 million in low-interest loans from the state to improve their water treatment facilities. The loans will allow projects ...
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Wildlife center to temporarily close to visitorsJun 19, 2014 1:01 am - Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn will be closed to visitors for several days next week so crews can finish work on a new parking lot. But the native wildlife ed...
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Oak Brook wins appeal of former chief's pensionJun 18, 2014 1:01 am - Oak Brook isn't responsible for paying most of the $740,000 bill related to a pension bump former police Chief Thomas Sheahan received, a DuPage County judge ruled. The ...
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DuPage forest preserve volunteer hired as paid consultantJun 17, 2014 1:01 am - A retired Wheaton barber who has been serving as an unpaid adviser to DuPage County Forest Preserve President D. "Dewey" Pierotti now will get paid $25,000 a year for hi...
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DuPage forest preserve adopts $44 million operating budgetJun 17, 2014 1:01 am - DuPage County Forest Preserve District commissioners have approved an operating budget of nearly $44 million for the coming fiscal year, a decrease of more than 5 percen...
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Itasca nature center to build animal exhibits with $335,000 grantJun 16, 2014 1:01 am - Springbrook Nature Center in Itasca will be getting some new exhibits and building improvements thanks to a $335,000 grant from the state. Itasca Park District, which ov...
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Four DuPage candidates face fight to stay on the ballotJun 15, 2014 1:01 am - Four candidates recently slated by the DuPage Democratic Party to run for countywide and county board positions face legal challenges to stay on the November ballot. Res...
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Prosecutors: Naperville man lied when he admitted hit-and-runJun 12, 2014 1:01 am - More than three years after 20-year-old Melissa Lech of Joliet died in a hit-and-run crash, David H. McCarthy IV showed up unannounced at the home of Lech's sister to ma...
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DuPage begins monitoring for West Nile virusJun 11, 2014 1:01 am - DuPage County has launched its annual battle against mosquitoes capable of infecting humans with West Nile virus. Forest preserve officials say they've started their 12t...