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Patch Roundup: Firefighters Resuscitate Cat; Photographer Captures Beloved Dominick's Employees

More news from around the North Shore includes the opening of a Pan-Asian seafood restaurant with a cook-your-own hibachi grill in Niles and a crackdown on crime at Deerfield's Red Roof Inn.

MORTON GROVE - Video Gaming Nets Morton Grove $5,000 A Month - As other suburbs consider whether video gaming will bring in the big bucks or cause a breakdown of the social order, one of the first towns to allow the vice gives details on what has really happened.

EVANSTON - Photographer Captures Evanston’s Beloved Dominick’s Employees - Numerous people lost their jobs when Dominick's shuttered its stores at 1910 Dempster St. and 2748 Green Bay Rd. in Evanston.

NILES - Pan-Asian Seafood, Steak Restaurant Opens On Golf Road - It features steak, lobster, seafood, Asian dishes of all sorts, and even a cook-your-own hibachi grill where you select your own shrimp, veggies, etc., and a chef cooks it for you.

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Northbrook - African Orphanage Gets A Northbrook Playground - The Northbrook Park District donated a playground to Uganda. This is the second time they have sent a playground overseas.

HIGHLAND PARK--Fire Department Resuscitates Cat After Blaze. Highland Park Fire Department gets cat breathing again, rescues dog during fire on Oak Street. Family was not home when blaze broke out.

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BUFFALO GROVE — Stevenson Student Named to Figure Skating Honors Team — A Stevenson High School senior was among only 10 teens in that nation to be named to the 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Scholastic Honors team for her academic achievement, community involvement and her skating ability.

WINNETKA-- Northfield Police Remember Arthur Samuels - Winnetka's Arthur M. Samuels was born Oct. 5, 1911 and died Jan. 1, 2014.

EVANSTON - New Evanston Restaurant Recreates Flavors of Italy - La Macchina Café, 1620 Orrington Ave., held a grand opening Wednesday. The restaurant serves coffee roasted in Evanston and authentic Italian dishes.

WINNETKA-Chicago Fire Soccer Signs Winnetka's Chris Ritter - The New Trier alum was previously honored the Big Ten Defensive Player of the year while playing at Northwestern University.

GLENVIEW - Glenbrook Special Olympics Girls Hoops Named "High School Team of the Week" - The Chicago Sky recognized the Glenbrook United Special Olympics girls basketball team as its first "High School Team of the Week" in 2014.

DEERFIELD--Village Tackles Crime at Red Roof Inn. After recent crime spree, Deerfield considers legislation to curb criminal activity at motel.

LAKE FOREST — Fire at Lake Forest Library Causes Minor Damages — A broken light bulb fell onto a chair and started a fire this week at the Lake Forest Library.

SKOKIE - Man Attacks Driver Who ‘Didn’t Turn When He Had The Chance’ - One driver lost his patience and gave in to extreme road rage, battering another car with a baseball bat.


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