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“I'm hoping with retirement I can just take a nice vacation.”

He's inspired two generations of Mokena children, and now Tom Lamb is going fishing. via Lincoln-Way Sun

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“But almost every time we opened the slide, there was always something that went wrong. There was no sense that this was a good way to utilize public funds.”

Construction crews on Tuesday morning began the arduous task of demolishing the Cook County Forest Preserve District's last toboggan slide, the nearly 80-year-old runs in Palos Township. via Chicago Tribune

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“It's frustrating because this just lends credence to people talking about seceding.”

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger says his nine choices to sit on a new county hospital board represent "the cultural, gender and racial diversity of our county." But records show eight of the nine ... via Chicago Sun-Times

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“I bought a lot of smoke detectors and put them on the kitchen counter and they sat there for weeks”

In an episode of the TV show "King of Queens," a chirping smoke detector in the middle of the night wakes lead character Doug, who goes in search of the offending device. via Lincoln-Way Sun

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“The offenders want whatever is hot”

Real estate practitioners who leave their global positioning systems attached to car windows and dashboards while they aren't in their vehicles are enticing thieves, police departments say. via Realtor Magazine

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“We encourage parents to talk to their children, teens or younger, and explain these issues. They cannot be so trusting of people they don't know.”

A 33-year-old man who worked at southwest suburban mall has been charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in the mall parking lot.

Andrew F. Alexander of Elmhurst was charged Friday with felony aggravated sexual abuse for having unlawful sexual contact with the teen in late April, Orland Park police said Tuesday.

The girl met Alexander while she was shopping in the Orland Square Mall and he took her to his vehicle in the parking lot, where he sexually abused her, Orland Park police Sgt. John Keating said. Read more

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Xavier student charged with leaving threatening messages in the washrooms of the university in mid-April, causing a university-wide shutdown. via WBBM-AM Chicago

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A St. Xavier University student was charged Friday in connection with the threatening graffiti messages found on the wall of a campus building that led to the school's shutdown last month, school officials said ... via Chicago Tribune

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“Twenty-four years together was too short.”

A Homer Glen man was charged Monday with drunken driving in a car crash that killed an Orland Park man and injured the driver and three others Sunday near Willow Springs, authorities said.

Michael Fahey, 46, who was critically injured, was charged with four counts of aggravated driving under the influence, officials said.

Phuc Pham, 24, of the 15000 block of South 88th Avenue in Orland Park, a passenger in Fahey's car, was killed in the crash. He was riding in the back seat and died of head injuries, the medical examiner's office said. Read more

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'Thump, thump, thump,' went the electronic device. 'What you are hearing is the heartbeat of the fish,' explained Denise McClelland, a certified veterinary technician. via Chicago Tribune

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