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Orland Parker Blog · 5d ago

Can racists seek hate crimes charges against attackers

Police in Tinley Park and the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force continue to investigate the violent brawl that took place Saturday afternoon at the Ashford House Restaurant, an Irish diner at 7990 W. 159th Street in Tinley Park on the border with Orland Park.Mayor Ed Zabrocki, in an interview

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Orland Parker Blog · 2W ago

Village of Orland Park Board Chooses Illinois Based Electrical Aggregation Company

Villageof Orland Park Board Chooses Illinois Based Electrical Aggregation CompanyVillage Residents Could See More Than 40% Savings by Summer’s EndORLAND PARK, IL – At its May 7thmeeting, the Village of Orland Park Board of Trustees directed village staff and legal counsel to finalize a contract wi

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Orland Parker Blog · 2W ago

Sales tax rebate fiasco raises re-election fears at the village

Orland Park Mayor Dan McLaughlin this week said what some of the village officials have been privately saying for the past few months, that the village may restore the Sales Tax rebate that was suspended in 2009. Trustee Brad O'Halloran has been vocal about urging that the sales tax rebate be reins

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Orland Parker Blog · 3W ago

Chicago Tribune pulls the plug on local journalism

The Chicago Tribune pulled the plug on the Trib Local, one of the more reliable major news resources. Most if not all of the reporters for the Trib Local will be "let go." It's going to be outsourced to a "content provided" called Journatic LLC. (Read story.) Journatic pays its writers about $12 an

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Orland Parker Blog · 3W ago

Classless, ignorant Fran Eaton spins her hypocrisy again

Fran Eaton, the right wing conservative fanatic who embraces racism and wears hypocrisy like a butler's towel over her penned arm as she serves her racist fanaticism to readers, is at it again.Eaton, who writes for the racist Illinois Review online blog and pens a vicious, self-serving and almost a

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Orland Parker Blog · 1M ago

Slander continues at the "Orland Park Patch"

The Orland Park Patch was supposed to be part of national network of local news pages, now owned by AOL. But it has turned into a killing ground for the truth. The Patch allows people to make outrageous, slanderous claims and doesn't do anything to limit the debate. Anyone can post on it. And anyon

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Orland Parker Blog · 1M ago

Now these are REAL Flowers

Lots of response to the blog post opinion I wrote about my horrible experience with the Sass & Class flower shop on LaGrange Road. I won't go back there again. I ordered something from them online and the flowers I got didn;t even look the same. It was a horrible thing. Click here to read that colu

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Orland Parker Blog · 1M ago

Village of Orland Park's Transparency that doesn't work

When Orland Fire Protection District President Jim Hickey announced last year his plan to put all of the district's documents online, including contracts, to achieve transparency for the residents, the Village of Orland Park must have gotten its' underwear in a bunch. They immediately launched thei

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Orland Parker Blog · 1M ago

Gorman: Awareness needed to address rising heroin use in Cook County suburbs

Orland Park, April 16, 2012Gorman: Awareness needed to address rising heroin use cited in Cook County suburbsAt the Cook County Board meeting On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Cook County Commissioner Elizabeth “Liz” Doody Gorman will be sponsoring a Resolution to bring awareness to the growing problem o

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Orland Parker Blog · 2M ago

Election winners and losers, and close calls

Patlak versus Sean MorrisonThe right wing extremists celebrated a pyrrhic victory Tuesday night with the narrow victory of Dan Patlak over better qualified Sean Morrison. Patlak will face a stiff challenge from Democrat Casey Thomas Griffin who received an enormous vote of more than 65,000 in the D

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