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Chicagoland news to talk about: Elk Grove Village man guilty of injuring policeman at Elgin Toll Plaza.

 

As part of a Patch/Huffington Post collaboration, Huffington Post reporter Paul Needham will be traveling across the United States and visiting Patch communities.

Andrzej Wojtkielewicz, 23, was convicted Tuesday by a Kane County jury of one count of aggravated battery to a police officer, a Class 2 felony. Wojtkielewicz was fleeing from police at the time with a large amount of cocaine.

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He now faces 45 years to life for his role in the March 2010 triple murder in Darien.

A fundamental transformation is under way in how people interact with computers and what can be expected from them. . Some of the newest computing power -- five Windows Phone 7.5 devices and two Xbox 4GB Kinect Bundles -- will be given away to audience members following Mundie’s presentation.

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The Chicago Tea Party hopes their regional convention, "TeaCon 2011," will carry enough cache to win over the Republican presidential candidates they've invited to the two-day event at the end of September, in Schaumburg. TeaCon organizers have invited all of the declared presidential candidates to participate in 20 minute interviews during a "Town Hall Meeting" that will include questions from guests.


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