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Probation, restitution for ex-employee who stole $142K from Palatine businessApr 22, 2025 8:29 pm - A former employee of a Palatine seal-coating company and her husband were ordered to pay restitution of more than $140,000 to the owners as a condition of their guilty pleas to a theft which authorities say occurred from 2019 through 2023.
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Krishnamoorthi joins Little City Earth Day celebration on horticultural center anniversaryApr 22, 2025 8:26 pm - U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi joined a small crowd gathered Tuesday at the Little City campus in Palatine to celebrate Earth Day.
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Buffalo Grove hikes fines on smoke shops selling THC productsApr 22, 2025 8:22 pm - Buffalo Grove is raising fines on licensed tobacco shops that sell synthetic and hemp-derived THC products like Delta-8.
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Arlington Heights honors outgoing mayor, who is town’s longest-serving elected officialApr 22, 2025 7:11 pm - As Arlington Heights' longest-serving elected official after 34 years on the village board, Mayor Tom Hayes received honors and accolades at his final village board meeting Monday night.
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Residents displaced by Lindenhurst house fireApr 22, 2025 6:29 pm - Residents were displaced following a house fire in Lindenhurst on Tuesday afternoon.
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Buffalo Grove board approves local grocery taxApr 22, 2025 5:53 pm - Buffalo Grove trustees voted this week to impose a 1% local tax on groceries when the state’s 1% tax expires on Jan. 1.
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80 years ago this week, a Cook County forest preserve was converted into a POW labor campApr 22, 2025 5:51 pm - Nature is slowly reclaiming a swath of land buried deep inside a suburban forest preserve near Des Plaines that was turned into a World War II prisoner of war labor camp 80 years ago this week.
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Lake Zurich among the latest communities to approve local grocery tax to replace expiring state measureApr 22, 2025 4:29 pm - Like dozens of other communities, Lake Zurich will replace the expiring 1% state grocery tax with a local one starting Jan. 1.
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Carol Stream adopts grocery taxApr 22, 2025 4:27 pm - In response to the elimination of the state’s 1% grocery tax, Carol Stream joins other suburban municipalities in instituting its own tax.
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Fogo de Chão opens in Schaumburg with weeklong donation to Greater Chicago Food DepositoryApr 22, 2025 4:26 pm - Fogo de Chão, the internationally known Brazilian steakhouse, opened its fifth Chicago area restaurant at 1950 E. Golf Road in Schaumburg Monday.