Illinois
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Reputed mob boss' brother sentencedMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The brother of a reputed mob boss has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for paying a witness $4,000 a month to keep silent about unsolved underworld murd...
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Obama's right to pressure Clinton to release documentsMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The campaign manager for Sen. Barack Obama has a point. David Plouffe wants Hillary Clinton to release her income tax returns for the last several years and couple that ...
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Rezko letters hint at 'pressure' by lawmaker over hospital expansionMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The Illinois public got its first look Tuesday at a series of letters state administrators wrote under pressure from state Rep. Jack Franks, who urged them to back the p...
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Museum needs money to stay openMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - RANTOUL -- Chanute Air Museum has called off its summer air show because it can't afford it and says it needs more money to stay open. Museum director Hal Loebach says t...
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Gun activists descend on capitol to make positions known
Mar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Gun activists have made known to the Illinois General Assembly which gun bills they favor and which ones they oppose. Thousands of activists showed up at ...
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Lincoln lookalikes to flood Mississippi River city in AprilMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - ALTON -- Honest, Abe, Alton soon will be a land of Lincoln lookalikes. Dozens of impersonators of the 16th president plan to converge on the Mississippi River city next ...
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A look at Illinois governors who resignedMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Over the course of Illinois' history, four governors have resigned, surprisingly none directly due to scandal. The last was Democrat Otto Kerner, who resig...
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TB blamed in Cook Co. man's death
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - The Cook County medical examiner says a Schiller Park man has died after testing positive for miliary tuberculosis. Miliary tuberculosis is a form of the disease that sp...
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Attorney General Lisa Madigan gives birth to daughter
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is a mother for the second time. She gave birth this morning to Lucy Lillian Madigan Byrnes. Lucy weighs in at 7 pounds, 3 ounces,...
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2 die in trench collapse at sewage treatment facility
Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - MILLSTADT -- Emergency workers recovered the bodies of two workers killed when the sides of a trench they were working in collapsed, trapping them under mounds of dirt. ...