Illinois
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Illinois roads need $5 billion annually
Apr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Experts have told a bipartisan panel looking at Illinois' crumbling infrastructure that the state must invest at least $5 billion a year in additional funding just to ma...
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Child dies in window blind accidentApr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Police say the mother of a 3-year-old suburban boy found her son dead, hanging from the cord of a window blind. Autopsy results released Wednesday found the death of Max...
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Man drops 'faulty zipper' defense, pleads guilty to attacking girl
Apr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - JACKSONVILLE -- After claiming for weeks that a faulty zipper led to improper contact with a 3-year-old girl, a man has pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct charges. Trav...
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Derailment cuts Amtrak service to St. Louis
Apr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - PONTIAC -- Amtrak has canceled some trains between St. Louis and Chicago and plans to put passengers from others on chartered buses after a freight train derailment bloc...
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Legislator describes vexing impasseApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Rep. Suzanne Bassi met with business leaders on Tuesday morning in Hoffman Estates to talk about her frustrations with the current deadlock in the Illinois legislature. ...
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Excessive police force alleged in lawsuit
Apr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - PEORIA -- A lawsuit filed in Peoria County Circuit Court alleges two Peoria police officers used excessive force in the fatal shooting of a man last year. The wrongful d...
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Farmers to be paid for seized grain
Apr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - CANTON -- Farmers who lost thousands of dollars invested in now bankrupt Central Illinois Energy will be reimbursed for cost of the corn they provided the unfinished eth...
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Change that would be bad for AmericaApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama boast that they will bring "change" and that they will unify the country if elected. I agree with them that they will bring "change," bu...
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Former state finance officer admits making contributions to get jobApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - A high-level administrator under Gov. Rod Blagojevich admitted in a federal plea deal Tuesday that he paid more than $50,000 in campaign contributions to land his job as...
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State appeals ruling on health care expansion
Apr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- The state is appealing a Cook County judge's ruling that blocked part of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's health care expansion. Judge James Epstein on Wednesday also r...