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Pekin mayor in critical condition

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2008 10:00 pm - PEKIN -- The mayor of the central Illinois community of Pekin is in a medically induced coma after contracting a rare infection while recovering from a heart attack. May...
Prison guards hired amid budget mess

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Associated Press has learned that Illinois hired 208 new prison guards just weeks after Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced layoffs because of budget cuts....
Washington Park clerk admits embezzling

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2008 10:00 pm - EAST ST. LOUIS -- Sentencing is set for next March for a woman who admits embezzling nearly $144,000 from the southwestern Illinois village of Washington Park while she ...
Ill. towns top nation in unemployment

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Three Illinois communities are among the top 10 small-and-medium-sized U.S. cities with the highest unemployment rates. The southern Chicago suburb of Harvey has the thi...
Complaint: Zell receptive to firing editors

Bloomberg News
Dec 08, 2008 10:00 pm - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was told by an aide that Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell was receptive to firing Chicago Tribune editorial writers who had been critical of ...
Charleston tops nation in income drop

Associated Press
Dec 08, 2008 10:00 pm - CHARLESTON -- The east-central Illinois community of Charleston has seen the biggest drop in median household income among small-and-medium-sized U.S. cities. New census...
Great Lakes Compact takes effect today

Associated Press
Dec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - MADISON, Wis. -- A multistate treaty to limit the use of Great Lakes water goes into effect Monday. The Great Lakes Compact generally bars large-scale, long-distance wit...
Mitsubishi to idle Ill. factory for 7 weeks

Bloomberg News
Dec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. plans to stop building vehicles at its Illinois plant for seven weeks starting in mid-February, as the company struggles with a 25 percent drop i...
Woman charged in crash that killed 3

Associated Press
Dec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - A 43-year-old LaSalle County woman is due to be arraigned this coming week on charges related to a drunken driving crash that left a woman and her two young children dea...
St. Louis-bound train hits truck; 10 hurt

Associated Press
Dec 07, 2008 10:00 pm - BRIGHTON -- Amtrak says one of its trains slammed into a tractor-trailer that blocked the tracks in southern Illinois, injuring nine passengers and a crew member. Amtrak...

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