Illinois
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2 dead in north central Ill. plane crash
Apr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - SANDWICH -- The Federal Aviation Administration says two people have died in a plane crash in north central Illinois. FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says a 1946-er...
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Lawmakers look to raise cigarette tax again
Apr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- One of Bill McCloskey's gas stations used to sell 110,000 packs of cigarettes a month before a $2 Cook County sales tax kicked in three years ago. Now it ...
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Quinn signs regulations for alternative gas suppliersApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation Friday designed to protect Illinois residents from misleading business practices of dishonest alternative gas suppliers. "The protectio...
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Funeral directors subpoena Burris
Apr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A group of funeral directors who say they have lost millions of dollars from mismanagement of a pre-need funeral trust fund have filed a subpoena against ...
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Quinn to make Monday stops at Harper, Hoffman EstatesApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn is set to attend a brief public question-and-answer session at Harper College in Palatine Monday before heading to a fundraiser in his honor in Hoffman Es...
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Is speed-camera plan really safe?Apr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - When a suburban man with 60 traffic tickets smashed his Ferrari into another car, killing the driver, her 4-year-old son and himself in 2005, state and loc...
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WWII Medal of Honor recipient Russell Dunham dies
Apr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS -- Russell Dunham never considered himself a hero that snowy day he charged a French hill during World War II, killing nine German soldiers and taking two othe...
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Woman charged with theft from village
Apr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - The newly established Financial Crimes and Public Corruption Unit of the Cook County Sheriff's Police is now handling its first case -- that of a former Hazel Crest empl...
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Home care workers for seniors could be cutApr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Some seniors who depend on hired "homemakers" to wash their laundry, cook their meals and give them baths might get a little less help around the house. W...
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Services Friday for Medal of Honor recipient
Apr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - ALTON -- Family and friends are saying their final goodbyes to a southwestern Illinois man who received a Medal of Honor for his heroics during World War II. Russell Dun...