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Township tables Homer Glen request on festival sponsorship
Homer Township trustees have tabled a request from the Village of Homer Glen to bar the township and a festival committee from receiving sponsorship from anyone in litigation with the village. The township and the village are scheduled to co-host this...
Tags: Litigation and Regulation, Springfield, Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Homer Glen
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Local Voices, Apr. 18
Letters to the editor from Orland Park and Homer Glen residents. Local roadways When it comes to the proposed improvements to 159th Street in Homer Glen, who knows best? Is it John Portman, the chief engineer from the Illinois Department of...
Tags: Orland Park, Business, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Homer Glen
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Some unhappy with IDOT removal of trees in Highland Park
Some business owners are smoldering over an initiative that chopped hundreds of trees along Illinois Route 41 to improve visibility to businesses along a mile-long stretch of the highway in Highland Park. What was originally billed as a program to...
Tags: Highland Park (Cook, Illinois), Business, Skokie, Karen May, Susan Garrett
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Legislation proposed for speed limit laws near schools
There is no mistaking Illinois for Kansas when it comes to driver behavior around children, state Rep. Elaine Nekritz says. "I grew up in Kansas. Everybody slowed down for school zones,'' said Nekritz, a Democrat from Northbrook who has lived in...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Chicago Police Department, Elaine Nekritz, Northbrook, Health and Safety at School
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Chicago police criticized for bypassing warrant process to make arrests using 'investigative alerts'
On a May evening in 2006, Frank Craig was a few hours away from a better life for his family of five. Court records show that the Army veteran was set to start a new job with the state, with solid pay and benefits, until Chicago police hauled him out of...
Tags: Murder, Chicago Police Department, FBI, Police Arrests, U.S. Army
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State worker charged with molesting co-worker at IDOT office
Special to the TribuneBond for a 53-year-old state worker was set at $50,000 today after authorities said he sexually molested a female co-worker at an Illinois Department of Transportation office in Schaumburg. Edgardo Sobenes, of the 3600 block of Killarney Court,...Tags: Rolling Meadows, Cook County Government, Sex Crimes, Prosecution
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October targeted opening date for North Riverside Costco
Demolition of the former restaurant supply company Edward Don is underway, clearing the ground for a Costco at 26th Street and Harlem Avenue in North Riverside. In addition to the warehouse store, four out lots are planned along Harlem Avenue. Jerry... -
Teen inventor eyes entrepreneurship
As early as 12, Jonny Cohen was called an inventor. Now, at 17, he's already headed toward a new title: entrepreneur. As a seventh-grader, the Highland Park resident conceived GreenShields — a curved wing atop school buses to decrease drag and...
Tags: Highland Park (Cook, Illinois), Science and Technology, Invention and Innovation, Engineering, Chicago Tribune
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Weeks in review
Change of SubjectA roundup of state and local news-review and weekly political chat shows. Descriptions provided by the broadcast outlets in most cases: The Afternoon Shift (WBEZ-FM 91.5) Host Rick Kogan talks about the week's two hottest stories -- school closings and...... -
State rep quizzed on guns
What was billed as a town hall meeting with former Des Plaines mayor and current state Rep. Marty Moylan to hear the legislative ideas of constituents morphed into an opportunity for gun-rights supporters to have their voices heard. Gun-rights advocates...
Tags: FEMA, Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Personal Weapon Control, Science and Technology
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Dolton man held on $500K in fatal crash on Bishop Ford
Tribune reporterA 24-year-old Dolton man was ordered held today on $500,000 bail in a fatal crash early Sunday on the Bishop Ford Expressway. Prosecutors said that at about 3:27 a.m. Sunday, Travis Berry was driving a 1994 blue Lincoln Town Car on Interstate 94 near...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Crime, Law and Justice, Witnesses, Motorvehicle Accidents, Judges
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Trustees go for sidewalk on south side of 159th
Homer Glen officials have decided to put a sidewalk on the south side of 159th Street, a less expensive and space-saving alternative to a multi-use path, as part of the Illinois Department of Transportation's major widening of the roadway. "It's cheaper...
Tags: Science and Technology, Homer Glen
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