Articles filed under Communities
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New Fox Valley parks leader eyes riverfront open spaceSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Fox Valley Park District's new board president says her main priorities are to preserve open space along the riverfront and continue to care for Aurora's inner-city park...
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Advocates did a terrific jobSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Lake County United did an amazing job advocating for a new facility for Winchester House! Members spent countless hours volunteering to meet with Lake County Board membe...
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Study finds we lose 2 days a year to commutingSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - What would you do with an extra 46 hours this year? Relax with the family? Extend that vacation? Sleep in? Instead, you spend that much time or more sitting in the car s...
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Jail filled to over-capacity, sheriff saysSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Former California governor Jerry Brown once theorized that "the volume of paperwork expands to fill the available briefcases." The Lake County variation of that theory m...
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Iowa man indicted for sending pipe bombs to investment firmsSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The Iowa man accused of mailing two dud pipe bombs from Rolling Meadows to investment companies in hopes of driving up stock prices has been indicted on federal securiti...
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Acts sought for downtown Geneva music daySep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Shopping in downtown Geneva could soon have a soundtrack of its own. The Geneva Cultural Arts Commission wants musicians to play in public areas throughout the district....
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O.J. memorabilia not exactly going like hotcakesSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - The personal memorabilia O.J. Simpson tried to retrieve from a Las Vegas hotel room last week may have had some value. Most other Simpson memorabilia? Not so much. Exper...
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Ex-trustee candidate convictedSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - A one-time candidate for Carpentersville village board was convicted on assault and disorderly conduct charges Tuesday. Kane County Judge Susan Clancy Boles found Frank ...
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No physical ties to crime, attorney saysSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Virginia Johannessen was a 75-year-old widow and pack rat who had decades worth of newspapers, books and other items stacked in piles that resembled a maze in her Aurora...
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Carpentersville OKs water rate hikeSep 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Water and sewer rates in Carpentersville are set to go up for the second time in two years after the village board approved a 7 percent hike Tuesday night. Board members...