chicagotribune.com - 1/9/2009
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A few weeks after the Cubs were swept from the 2008 playoffs, Gov. Rod Blagojevich decreed that a stretch of Northwest Highway in Park Ridge would henceforth be known as Honorary Jim Hendry Way. When the Illinois Department of Transportation mounted the signs on some of its signal posts last ...
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suntimes.com - 1/8/2009
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Park Ridge officials say they aren't sure why
street signs honoring Cubs general manager Jim Hendry appeared...
in the Uptown area last month and claim they weren't informed of the plan.
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'Hendry Way' signs mystery to officials
baseballamerica.com - 1/13/2009
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Word on the street says Blagojevich honored Cubs' GM Hendry
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... Hendry told the Chicago Tribune that he's honored but didn't know anything about it until friends informed him they saw street signs bearing his name. ...
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... . Stay tuned. Maybe he could." Rod Blagojevich's representative Lucio Guerrero , on the governor naming a street after Jim Hendry. ( Chicago Tribune ) "It seems to me, as an internist, that's a disproportionate number of adults with ADD requiring stimulantsroughly 10 percent of the league. I've seen a lot of adults, and I can count on one hand the number of people I've seen with ADD. Since so many [players] received [therapeutic use exemptions], it's crying out for close examination of the TUE process for baseball and how it stacks up against the international standard. I ...
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