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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Cook Jeronimo Casas fries chicken wings at Tavern on the Fox in downtown Aurora. Fox Metro Water Reclamation District is requiring restaurant owners to install new grease traps. (Heather Eidson/STNG)
Sean Gorman has owned and operated Tavern on the Fox on Broadway in downtown Aurora for 16 years. He loves the restaurant's location, and he doesn't want to leave. And he certainly doesn't want to be forced to close his doors. But thanks to new regulations regarding grease traps, Gorman and other small restaurant owners in and around Aurora are finding themselves with a choice between scraping together tens of thousands of dollars on short notice or throwing in the towel.




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Kyle Schalz tossed a one-hitter as Rosary captured the Suburban Catholic conference title with a 7-0 win over Aurora Central. Shalz finished with 15 strikeouts on the day for the Royals, now 13-10 overall and 12-2 in league play. Brenda Rocha paced Rosary at the plate with three RBIs, Jessica Fortier added two RBIs and Schalz had two hits.

Oswego finished with four conference champions and tied Plainfield Central for first place with 26.5 points at the Southwest Prairie conference meet Saturday.





Area home sales plummet
The ongoing credit crunch and a softening economy led to double-digit declines in first-quarter home sales in the area and lower prices being paid for most of them, according to the Illinois Association of Realtors' latest report. Here are first-quarter 2008-to-2007 comparisons for the Elgin area of sales and median price (a typical market price where half the homes sold for more, half sold for less):



BP to move Naperville workers downtown
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