Articles filed under Counties
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U-46 high schools flunkAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - For at least the fifth straight year, four Elgin Area School District U-46 high schools failed to meet state standards in reading and math. Three-year-old South Elgin Hi...
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Stomach-churning fun at Last FlingAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Excited screams rang out from the Last Fling carnival Friday night. They were coming straight from Pharaoh's Fury where Blaine Carragher of Naperville and her friends we...
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Many suburban college students are commuters, tooAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Debra Cromie knew what she wanted -- and a dorm with a communal bathroom just wasn't it. She wanted the academic rigor of a college education. She wanted classes to prep...
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Briefs: Smoke alarms alert familyAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - The Arlington Heights fire department battled a basement blaze Thursday night that left a house with $90,000 in damages. The fire, at 1441 W. St. James St., was called i...
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Program helps 500 low-income parentsAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Ashlee Keating and her fiance, Emmanuel Carrillo, didn't make a lot of money and didn't know much about parenting when Keating became pregnant last year. They were worri...
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Lake Zurich 65, East Aurora 0Aug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - There haven't been too many occasions where the Lake Zurich football team has had to come back following a loss, but that is exactly where the Bears found themselves aft...
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Was a phone call in order?Aug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Crystal Lake Elementary District 47 officials on Friday asked police to investigate possible violations of state child abuse reporting laws after a former teacher allege...
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Pulled 'pork' is no shockAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - The cash would have been great, but they weren't holding their breath for it. That seems to be the consensus of local government, community college and hospital official...
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The why behind crime may never be fully answeredAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - To anyone who knew her, and even those who did not, it was obvious Maggie Kamysz loved her daughter. Kamysz and 7-year-old Sydney were nearly inseparable, leaving home a...
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Fairgrounds deal finally signed, sealed, deliveredAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - The sun set Friday on more than a century of agricultural tradition, but the sale of a family farm opened new horizons for the village of Grayslake and the Lake County F...