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Gov. Pat Quinn said Friday he would outline about $1 billion in cuts to state government operations next week as he continued talking with lawmakers about passing a balanced state budget.
Full Story published 7/3/2009 12:00 AM
DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett plans to run for Illinois attorney general in 2010 -- even if incumbent Lisa Madigan seeks a third term.
Full Story updated 7/2/2009 5:03 PM
Several thousand Illinois residents won't be able to hop in their cars and leave if they have one too many drinks at a Fourth of July party, thanks to a new law that already may be saving lives here and in other states.
Full Story published 7/3/2009 4:26 PM
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the winner of its annual Sitting Duck Award, a tongue-in-cheek honor that pokes fun at the most ridiculed newsmakers in the United States.
Full Story published 7/3/2009 2:21 PM
Southern Illinois University says its review of whether former Gov. Rod Blagojevich or his allies tried to influence student admissions at the school turned up two possible cases.
Full Story published 7/3/2009 2:12 PM
A report from the Illinois Department of Public Health has found that a male resident at a LaSalle County-owned nursing home sexually abused 10 female residents.
Full Story published 7/3/2009 12:55 PM
The father of a southwestern Illinois man accused of killing his wife and two sons may be getting a new attorney in a wrongful-death case involving his son.
Full Story published 7/3/2009 12:55 PM
According to a published report, a campaign adviser to state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias helped a politically connected applicant get in to the University of Illinois.
Full Story published 7/3/2009 10:13 AM
Investigators say a 2-year-old boy has drowned in a relative's pool in the southern Illinois tourist town of Metropolis.
Full Story published 7/3/2009 10:03 AM
The next big court date in former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption case comes Wednesday when one of his top aides may plead guilty. John Harris, Blagojevich's former chief of staff, is due in court and his attorney says he may change his not guilty plea to guilty.
Full Story published 7/3/2009 7:17 AM
A national study puts Illinois among the top 10 states with the highest percentages of overweight or obese teenagers. The Trust for America's Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report ranks Illinois 10th for overweight children ages 10-17. The state ranks fourth for childhood obesity, behind Mississippi, Georgia and Kentucky.
Full Story published 7/3/2009 7:13 AM
7/2/2009
- » Ill. agency begins replenishing Rock River
- » People with kids, disabilities to feel pinch
- » DNA tests ordered in '91 bar-fight death
- » More than 3,100 swine flu cases in state
- » SIU complies with admissions subpoena
- » High court adopts new rules for lawyers
- » Morris repairman killed in Ind. bakery
- » Rockford murder suspect found camping
- » 20 Ill. inmates released to ease crowding
- » IDOT to makes holiday travel a bit easier
- » History conference scheduled for October
- » Tax hike showdown in Springfield
- » Several states struggling with recession
7/1/2009
- » Governor Quinn vetoes bare-bones budget
- » Historians uncover Civil War past of Peoria
- » Quinn: Adults don't 'put off decisions'
- » Levine pal to be sentenced in tax fraud
- » HUD gives $94.7 mil. in funding for housing
- » Galena to host Civil War encampment
- » Stuffed animal may have sparked fatal mauling
- » Mississippi still fattest, Alabama closing in
- » Federal judge won't block BP refinery
- » Illinois judge arrested for DUI
- » Sheley asks to move murder trial
- » Judge orders state to meet kid welfare rules
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6/26/2009
- » Patti Blagojevich back in Chicago from the jungle
- » Five killed in crash in northwest Indiana
- » Charter bus accident on I-80 slows traffic
- » Ex-prosecutor added to Blago defense team
- » 2 FutureGen partners drop out of project
- » U of I. releases clout admissions e-mails
- » Man charged with assaulting Mass. teen
- » Blago trial date set; aides to change pleas
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