Illinois
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Ex-state worker gets 30 months for theft
Feb 09, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A former employee in the Illinois state treasurer's office has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for stealing at least $263,000 from taxpayers. Debra ...
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Gov. Quinn makes 2 staff picks
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - New Gov. Pat Quinn has a well-worn image as a political outsider, so when it came to picking his new chief of staff he didn't tap a big-time wheeler-dealer as his right-...
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Quinn names 28-year-old to veterans' affairs post
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Returning to his favorite cause for one of the first times since becoming Illinois governor, Pat Quinn on Sunday tapped his 28-year-old aide and mentee to head the state...
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Teen arrested in stepfather's stabbing death
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - COUNTRY CLUB HILLS -- Police in the south Chicago suburb of Country Club Hills have arrested a 14-year-old boy who fled after allegedly fatally stabbing his stepfather i...
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2 Illinois Guardsmen dead in Afghanistan
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - KABUL, Afghanistan -- Authorities say two Illinois National Guard soldiers were killed as they tried to help police defuse a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Initial report...
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Intruder cooks, eats steak in Peoria home
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - PEORIA -- Police in Peoria say a local man returned to his home to find someone had broken in, but nothing was missing -- except a $6 steak that he had left out to thaw....
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Crews clean 65,000-gallon oil spill near Joliet
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - The Environmental Protection Agency says the Des Plaines River shoreline and embankments in suburban Chicago are being scoured to determine if waterfowl or aquatic life ...
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New tollway chief? No one told the new governorFeb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - When the tollway board picked a new chief Friday to run the multibillion-dollar highway system that rings the suburbs, Gov. Pat Quinn knew nothing about it. He read abo...
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Ill. monument to coal miners planned
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - SESSER -- Plans are under way to honor Franklin County coal miners with a memorial planned in the southern Illinois town of Sesser. Sesser Monument Co. has been tapped t...
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It's time to step up for ethics reformFeb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Former Governor Rod Blagojevich, a self-professed student of history, did not seem to pay the least bit of attention to the recent history of his predecessor, Gov. Georg...