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Archive for July, 2005

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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
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There’s an interesting article in today’s Courier about the expanding influence of the SEIU.
The union has beefed up its involvement in city politics, giving the four winners in the April city council election a total of $7,500 and making automated phone calls on their behalf worth more than $6,400…That is thought to be a record […]

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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
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Business is not good in the downtown Dundees. Maybe they will be more amenable to merging the two villages now. I think they tried once before in 1962, and I don’t know why the attempt failed, but I think it’s worth considering again.
Read the article.

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Friday, July 29th, 2005
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This map shows the glaring absence of a north-south corridor linking the Fox Valley. I think we need an Elgin to Aurora (I-90 to I-88) highway. What do you think? 

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Friday, July 29th, 2005
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There was an interesting article in the Daily Herald today about various transportation projects in the Chicagoland region that will receive funding through the Transportation Equity Act.

It also includes $70 million for a Stearns Road bridge over the Fox River near the DuPage-Kane county border and millions for reconstruction of the Route 60 bridge over […]