Illinois
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Suburban park districts stay on lawmakers' radarMay 05, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Park district representatives from across the suburbs flocked to the Capitol on Tuesday in hopes of keeping their grant money flowing. Several area distric...
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Police: 3 found dead in southwestern Illinois home
May 05, 2009 11:00 pm - COLUMBIA -- A mother and her two young boys were found murdered on Tuesday in their southwestern Illinois home where police said they had previously investigated suspici...
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Palatine state Sen. Murphy eyeing run for governorMay 04, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - State Sen. Matt Murphy of Palatine is the latest Republican to publicly consider throwing his hat into the 2010 Illinois governor's race. Murphy said Monda...
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Archer Daniels Midland's 3Q profit tumbles
May 04, 2009 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS -- Archer Daniels Midland Co., a major corn and soybean processor and ethanol maker, said Tuesday its fiscal third-quarter profit tumbled an unexpectedly sharp...
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Grant will pay to make one suburban school 'green'May 04, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - One suburban school will be getting a green makeover, courtesy of the U.S. Green Building Council's Chicago Chapter. The council, which has joined Gov. Pat...
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3 found dead in downstate house
May 04, 2009 11:00 pm - COLUMBIA -- Authorities in southwestern Illinois say three people have been found dead in a home in Columbia. Investigators are withholding additional details, including...
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Trial set for daycare hot sauce case
May 04, 2009 11:00 pm - HARRISBURG -- Authorities in southern Illinois plan a July trial for a daycare worker accused of putting hot sauce on the tongues of children as a way to discipline them...
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Neighbor sued over friend's fire death
May 03, 2009 11:00 pm - EDWARDSVILLE -- The widow of a southwestern Illinois man who died when a bonfire ignited the home where he was sleeping has filed a lawsuit. Bobbie Dexheimer filed the w...
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It may take wheeling and dealing, but Quinn's ethics reforms may passMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Senate Democrats are extending a hand to Gov. Pat Quinn and his push for sweeping changes to political and ethics laws, offering the governor a set of blan...
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Northwestern faculty, students join hunger strike
May 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Faculty and students at Northwestern University have started a hunger strike in support of an American journalist imprisoned in Iran. The FreeRoxana campaign began Sunda...