Neither Rodriguez nor Divincenzo could be reached for comment, but Des Plaines police reports show both previously denied knowing about team hazing or initiation rituals.

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Inside a metal-clad tower at the gas technology Institute in suburban Des Plaines, Ill. sits a narrow, 40-foot steel tube bristling with instrumentation ports and pressurized pipes.

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They'd been the bread and butter of Des Plaines, Ill.

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Earlier in 2012, Sprint announced the availability of 4G LTE to Illinois customers in Addison, Bolingbrook, Des Plaines, Downers Grove, Kankakee, Waukegan-Lake County, Rockford, Joliet, Naperville, Palatine and Plainfield, along with Gary, Ind.

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In suburban Chicago, which got up to 7 inches of rain in a 24-hour period ending Thursday, record levels of water were moving through the Des Plaines River past heavily populated western suburbs and into the Illinois River to the south.

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