Illinois
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Ill. air quality held steady in 2007
Jan 10, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency says the state's air quality held steady in 2007. In a report released this week, the state EPA says air qual...
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Who didn't vote to impeach?Jan 09, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Only two out of 116 Illinois House members casting votes Friday didn't support impeaching Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Both are Chicago Democrats and neither is r...
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Whistle-blower gets national limelightJan 09, 2009 10:00 pm - For weeks, the state's endured being a national and international punch line for jokes involving pay-to-play government, our disgraced governor and senate-seat shenaniga...
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Local reaction to Blagojevich's impeachmentJan 09, 2009 10:00 pm - Rep. Rosemary Mulligan, a Des Plaines Republican "I am really more worried about the state and what bad governance has done to the state. We are in really bad shape head...
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Durbin: Burris failed to get signature, shouldn't be seatedJan 09, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - The battle over whether Roland Burris will become the next U.S. Senator from Illinois ping-ponged Friday between legal and political venues in Springfield,...
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Impeachment: The House might do it twiceJan 09, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Friday's Illinois House vote marked the first time in the state's more than 190-year history that a governor had been impeached. Soon, Gov. Rod Blagojevich...
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Blago: History-making impeachment no surpriseJan 09, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich surrounded himself Friday with the sick, poor, elderly, disabled and a crying baby, trying to erect a political human shield around hi...
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Probation for teen in fatal DUI
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Indiana AG: Keep Ryan in prisonJan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - jryan@dailyherald.com In a letter Friday, Indiana's attorney general urged President George Bush not to set former Illinois Gov. George Ryan free from federal prison. "...
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House panel unanimously recommends impeachmentJan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois lawmakers will vote today on whether to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich for what a key committee called "a pattern of abuse of power." "I think that the House will...