Illinois
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Illinois to borrow $1.4 billion to pay waiting agencies, schoolsDec 05, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois will borrow $1.4 billion to make payments to schools, health care providers and others who've been waiting months to be reimbursed by the state. ...
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Durbin blasted Libby commutation, says that's 'dramatically different'Dec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Last year, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said commuting the prison sentence of vice presidential aide Scooter Libby would send "a terrible message." But this week the Springfiel...
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Rock Island teen paralyzed in football game dies
Dec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - ROCK ISLAND -- Travis Hearn, a former Rock Island football player who was paralyzed from the neck down during a game and whose story caught the attention of President-el...
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Mayor calls Pontiac Prison task force a sham
Dec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - PONTIAC -- Mayor Scott McCoy is dismissing as a sham the task force formed to help the Pontiac area deal with the impending loss of a state prison that Gov. Rod Blagojev...
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FBI searches 2 suburban pharmacies
Dec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - JOLIET -- The FBI has searched two Joliet pharmacies owned by a fundraiser for Gov. Rod Blagojevich. FBI spokesman Ross Rice said agents took records from Basinger's Pha...
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Council member charged with stealing salt
Dec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - ROCKFORD -- A northern Illinois city council member is facing misdemeanor charges after allegedly stealing salt from a municipal facility. But Robert Redieske says the t...
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Mitsubishi to suspend production at Ill. factory
Dec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Mitsubishi said Friday it will suspend production at its plant in Normal, for seven weeks starting Feb. 18, joining other foreign automakers that are halting...
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Hospitals find it tough to borrow
Dec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - NORMAL -- Hospital officials in central Illinois indicate expansion projects are being delayed because economic woes have dried up long-term financing for tax-exempt bod...
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Report: Blagojevich recorded in federal probe
Dec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Federal investigators have made covert tape recordings of Gov. Rod Blagojevich as part of their corruption investigation of his administration, according to a published ...
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Durbin, Madigan argue for foreclosure helpDec 04, 2008 10:00 pm - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking Senate Democrat, is pushing for the federal government to share losses on mortgage defaults to prod banks to aggressive...