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Layoffs coming to Northbrook company
Forty-five employees at Northbrook's Shell Vacations Club are scheduled to be laid off this summer due to restructuring, leaving just 10 employees at the company's site at 40 Skokie Boulevard, officials said. The company, which runs a timeshare...Tags: Employees, Unemployment, Job Layoffs, Trips and Vacations, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Voice of the People, May. 25
Why Memorial Day? The parades. The flags. The military proudly carrying their weapons like beacons that will guide us, bring us freedom and make us strong. There will be cookouts and sales. Eat. Buy. Talk of sports, kids and the weather. Nothing serious....Tags: Louis I Lang, Pension and Welfare, Holidays, Wars and Interventions, Memorial Day
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Lawmakers go along with ComEd rate hikes, override Quinn
Clout StreetSPRINFFIELD -- Gov. Pat Quinn's effort to block ComEd from hiking rates was rejected by state lawmakers on Wednesday. The House voted 71-44 to override Quinn's veto of the legislation, the minimum number of votes needed to do so. The vote came a day...Tags: Illinois General Assembly, Pat Quinn, Ameren Corporation, Justice System, Louis I Lang
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Lawmakers override Quinn on ComEd veto
— Lawmakers on Wednesday rejected Gov. Pat Quinn's effort to block ComEd from raising rates in exchange for promises to digitize the electrical grid. The House voted 71-44 to override Quinn's veto of the original legislation, which would allow the...
Tags: Illinois General Assembly, Pat Quinn, Louis I Lang, Consumers, Tom Cross
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House gambling sponsor recuses self because of potential conflict
— The Illinois House's longtime gambling expansion point man has dropped his sponsorship of a casino bill to avoid a potential conflict of interest. Democratic Rep. Lou Lang of Skokie wrote to the House clerk that he is now affiliated with a law...
Tags: Louis I Lang, Legal Service, Organized Crime, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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Authorities: Woman who posed as drug counselor pleads guilty to forgery
Special to the TribuneA woman who authorities say posed as a licensed drug councilor in Glencoe will be sentenced in June on charges that she committed forgery when she deposited insurance company checks to her bank account, even though the checks were made out to the father...Tags: Punishment, Banking, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Glencoe, Crime, Law and Justice
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They're not booing, they're saying "Loooooou." Or maybe they are booing.
Change of SubjectSunday we published a muscular attack on our own editorial board penned by Democratic State Rep. Lou Lang of Skokie: For years the editorial page has loudly bellowed for and against Illinois pension proposals and petulantly insulted and denigrated... -
Voice of the People, May. 16
Lang's language This is in response to "Tribune's pension scold way off mark" (Perspective, May 12), by Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie, deputy majority leader of the Illinois House. Lang clearly has spent quite a bit of time polishing his ability to compose his...Tags: Illinois General Assembly, Louis I Lang, Pension and Welfare, Government, Elwood (Will, Illinois)
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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: Niles, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Wilmette, World War II (1939-1945)
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Legislators angry at Tribune editorial board over pension reform stance
It's about time that the Chicago Tribune's editorial board stop treating the Illinois Constitution like yesterday's newspaper. For years the editorial page has loudly bellowed for and against Illinois pension proposals and petulantly insulted and...
Tags: Illinois General Assembly, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Louis I Lang, U.S. Senate, Pension and Welfare
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Carrie Hightman is not afraid to take chances
Huddling with business and community leaders last month to recommend legal and financial advisers for development of Gary/Chicago International Airport, Carrie Hightman smiled as Adela Cepeda, an acquaintance from Chicago business circles, pitched her...
Tags: Restaurants, Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice, Marshall Field, Economy, Business and Finance
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Specialty courts in Lake and Cook counties help keep veterans and people with mental health problems out of trouble, officials say
Nicholas Rodriquez did not know Seneka Harrington three years ago, but both of their lives were spinning out of control. They were in serious trouble following arrests on various felony charges. Rodriquez, now 22, had recently left the Navy. After an...
Tags: Mental Health, Bipolar Disorder, Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Substance Abuse
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May 16, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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May 2, 2013
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