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Northwestern dean admits mistake

Associated Press
Apr 30, 2008 11:00 pm - The dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism told a meeting of alumni and students that he made a mistake when he quoted an anonymous student in a s...
Past Illiniweks hail to St. Charles student

Associated Press
Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - URBANA -- Officially, Chief Illiniwek is gone, but a group of University of Illinois graduates who once portrayed the controversial mascot has selected a new one, just i...
Governor's pitch for state rebate checks goes nowhere

By John Patterson Daily Herald Staff
Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- In February, Gov. Rod Blagojevich teased taxpayers and lawmakers with the whimsy of state rebate checks that could add hundreds of dollars onto the typica...
50,000 pounds of ribs go up in smoke

Associated Press
Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - HAZEL CREST -- Twenty-five tons of beef ribs went up in smoke overnight after the truck in which they were transported caught fire in the South suburbs. Illinois State P...
Immigration activists hope marches resonate with voters

Associated Press
Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Immigration activists and civil rights leaders are gearing up for rallies and marches in cities across the nation, hoping to revive the stagnant immigration debate in ti...
Newspaper carrier finds woman pinned by husband's dead body

Associated Press
Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Newspaper carrier Bruce Pitts knew the elderly couple only by the prayers the wife made for him while he was working at night and in bad weather, but he felt something w...
Blaine's next stunt today on live 'Oprah'

Associated Press
Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - He spent 44 days suspended from a glass box by the River Thames in London. He was buried alive for a week in a see-through coffin in New York City. Magician David Blain...
Counterfeit sneakers seized from Chicago-area storage unit

Associated Press
Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Suburban Chicago police officers say they're investigating a counterfeit ring after they discovered 15,000 pairs of fake Nike sneakers in a storage unit last week. The s...
Media take R. Kelly appeal to Illinois Supreme Court

By Emily Krone
Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago-area media outlets have taken their fight to gain greater access to the pretrial proceedings in the R. Kelly child pornography case to the Illinois Supreme Court...
Senate rejects income tax constitutional amendment

Associated Press
Apr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- State lawmakers have again shot down an effort to let voters decide if Illinois' income tax structure should be reworked. The Senate rejected a proposed c...

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