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Vernon Hills dispatchers will receive 2.5% annual pay raises under a three-year contract approved by the village board.

The 2019 raises will be retroactive to May 1, and the other raises will be applied in 2020 and 2021, Police Chief Patrick Kreis said of the contract approved Dec. 9.

Negotiations, which took place in three or four meetings over 90 days, were “very cordial…