If you’ve been to your nearby post office lately, no doubt you stood in line for a while to mail a package or buy stamps. However, in May 2012 after 50 years, the Rolling Meadows Post Office, 3266 Kirchoff Rd., closed and residents turned to the Arlington Hts., Mt. Prospect …
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