Articles filed under Park Districts
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Time to abolish the 'automatic' increasesDec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - The Inverness Park District board held a Dec. 1 meeting to vote on the tax levy for 2008. Information passed to commissioners contained the 5 percent maximum tax increas...
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Township, East Dundee bakery team up again to send food to soldiersDec 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The Dundee Township Senior Center and the Piece-A-Cake Bakery in East Dundee have teamed up once again to spread the holiday cheer. For the past year, volunteers from th...
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Compromise emerges in Naperville garden plot disputeDec 05, 2008 10:00 pm - The community garden plots along West Street near downtown Naperville may be able to accommodate both athletic fields and most of the gardeners who toil there after all....
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Donations down at Toys for TotsDec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - "Bleak" and "disappointing" aren't words typically used to describe the holiday season, but they were the first that came to Jim Christenson's mind Tuesday night. For fi...
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Briefs: Teen stutterers meetingDec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - The National Stuttering Association's Teens Who Stutter group will meet at 7 p.m. today, Dec. 5, at Glenbard North High School, 990 N. Kuhn Road, Carol Stream. The group...
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Gurnee mayor encouraging residents to dump T-MobileDec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Gurnee Mayor Kristina Kovarik says T-Mobile isn't playing nice and wants residents who subscribe to the company's wireless telephone service to send a message by droppin...
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Cemetery could hold key to Naperville fields debateDec 03, 2008 10:00 pm - Several residents are asking the Naperville Cemetery Association to help squash a debate over whether downtown land should be used for garden plots or athletic fields. T...
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Lake Wonderland festival is back -- now, with reindeerDec 03, 2008 10:00 pm - If you like looking at live reindeer and taking rides in a horse-drawn sleigh, the Lake Wonderland Winter Festival in Des Plaines is for you. It's 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sat...
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Owners place bet on OTB in Hoffman EstatesDec 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Another attempt to bring off-track betting to Hoffman Estates is in the works. The owners of the Turf Room, a North Aurora restaurant with a betting parlor, confirmed to...
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Briefs: Des Plaines may buy CNG carDec 02, 2008 10:00 pm - Des Plaines will step into the world of alternative fuels next year. The city council has voted to purchase two Honda Civics fueled by compressed natural gas instead of ...