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Bowled over by community support
Two recent fundraisers, respectively staged by Family Promise of the East San Fernando Valley and the Burbank Arts for All Foundation, brought thousands of Burbankers out to show their compassion for families in need and to support art education in...Tags: Human Interest, Disney Channel (tv network), Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Arts and Culture, Television
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Funding for Got Wheels! is suspended
Students who use the Got Wheels! bus service after school and around the city will have to make other plans for this summer after the City Council this week voted to move ahead with eliminating the program.
Since February, city officials have been...Tags: Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Vehicles, Transportation, Travel, Public Transportation
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Logan Square residents sue Tribune, partner over coupon circulars
Tribune reporterFed up with the unwanted weekly delivery of RedPlum/ShopLocal coupon packages, some two dozen Logan Square residents have sued its distributors -- the Chicago Tribune and Valassis Communications -- to stop receiving the savings offers. The lawsuit,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Media Industry, Justice System, Chicago Tribune, Litigation
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Borizov trial seen as successful test of cameras in state courtrooms
Their deliberations completed, the jurors marched into the courtroom, and the judge asked if they had reached a verdict. The foreman said they had. Soon the clerk read from the signed verdict forms: "We, the jury, find Johnny Borizov guilty of first-...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Witnesses, Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Television Industry
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Tribune subscriber class-action suit settled
Tribune reporterThe Chicago Tribune began mailing out a proposed offer Thursday to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by two subscribers who claimed the newspaper illegally charged increased rates to subscribers' credit and debit cards. The suit, filed in December...Tags: Chicago Tribune
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Illinois Republican chairman search down to nine
Clout StreetIllinois Republican leaders identified nine finalists Monday to replace Pat Brady as state GOP chairman, including several contenders who have been defeated in past elections. The list could be narrowed even further when the 19-member state central...Tags: Republican Party, Ronald Sandack, Same-Sex Marriage, Bartlett, Elections
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Calvin R. Sutker, 1923-2013
As a Cook County Board commissioner, Calvin R. Sutker gained support from his fellow county commissioners to bring the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center to Skokie. As a Skokie village trustee, he helped pass the first open housing law in...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Army, University of Chicago, Niles, March of Dimes Foundation
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Lawsuit alleges hockey enforcer died after NHL doctors gave him painkillers
The family of a veteran National Hockey League player has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in Chicago, alleging the league was responsible for his being supplied with excessive amounts of painkillers during six seasons as an "enforcer." The lawsuit, filed...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Dave Duerson, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Pain, Trials
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3 Illinois insurers liquidated after 10-year process
Tribune reporterA decade after they began to wind down operations, a group of three insurers doing business in Illinois is being liquidated. Illinois Department of Insurance Director Andrew Boron said liquidation orders were entered Friday in Cook County Circuit Court...Tags: Insurance
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Brudnak, Schirmacher sworn in as fire district trustees
A collaborative outlook for the future filled the board room at the Orland Fire Protection District recently when two new trustees were sworn in to their six-year terms. Jayne Schirmacher and John Brudnak took the oath of office administered by Cook...
Tags: Local Government, Orland Park, Orland Hills, Elections, Local Elections
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County to reopen part of juvenile jail that was shut last year
Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle is temporarily reversing her signature initiative to shrink the Juvenile Detention Center because a federally appointed administrator says there are too many youths being detained there to safely reduce its size....
Tags: Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Local Government, Toni Preckwinkle, Juvenile Delinquency
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Environmental laboratory receives accreditation, and more
News briefs from St. Charles, Batavia and Geneva. St. Charles Collection for crisis center Sensible Threadz, 208 S. Kirk Road, is collecting food items in May for the Community Crisis Center in Elgin. Customers to the discount retail and resale...Tags: Human Interest, Environmental Issues, St. Charles (Kane, Illinois), Elections, Local Elections
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