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Government fact-finding spurs Niles internal investigation
When U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s office investigated former Niles Mayor Nicholas Blase’s illegal doings, it found many business…
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School superintendents react to donations of $250,000
Local school superintendents reacted gratefully to the news that former Niles Mayor Nicholas Blase will be making…
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How It Happened: Blase recounts for court insurance scam
He didn’t set out to do wrong, former Niles Mayor Nick Blase said in court documents during in his recount of the insurance scam…
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Former Niles Mayor Nick Blase leaves the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago Former Niles Mayor Blase sentenced to one year jail plus fine, Makes $750,000 gift to three Niles school districts as indirect restitution
After weighing the good that former Niles Mayor Nicholas Blase did for the village against his violation of the public trust by…
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Former Niles Mayor Blase sentenced to one year jail plus fine Makes $750,000 gift to three Niles school districts as indirect restitution
After weighing the good that former Niles Mayor Nicholas Blase did for the village against his violation of the public trust by…
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Former Niles Mayor Nick Blase sentenced today
Former Niles Mayor Nick Blase was sentenced today to a one-year prison sentence plus $125,000 in fines. He is also to pay $750,000 in…
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SJB team has two-year winning streak
When St. John Brebeuf School’s eighth grade class graduates later this year, they’ll have some terrific basketball memories to add to…
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Dist. 63 panel brainstorms ways to relieve overcrowding
Some of East Maine School District 63’s schools are getting too crowded, while other schools have empty…
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Zolboo Erdenekhuyag, left to right, Ally Stevens, Anna Rangos, Claire Floriano and Lauren Krome joined about 50 other Maine High School District 207 students Friday in front of Maine South High School to protest the district’s plan to lay off 137 employees, including 75 teachers, to address a $17 million deficit. The students marched in a loop in front of the school shouting “Save our teachers” and “Use our reserves.” Dist. 207 students plead with board to keep teachers
Alternating between polite requests, indignant demands and tearful pleas, Maine Township District 207 students asked the board and…
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Robert Bykowski/Staff photographer. Students from St. John Brebeuf are awarded their certificates for winning the Niles Library’s Battle of the Books.
Success in ‘Battle’ wins kids an author visit and pizza party
To cap off a successful “Battle of the Books” season, local schoolchildren got a visit from a major national author Friday at the…
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