Illinois
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NIU shootings show vulnerability despite efforts to secure schools
Feb 15, 2008 10:00 pm - Bloody students fleeing in terror. Bodies carried out on stretchers. Candlelight vigils and makeshift shrines. Another campus, another deadly attack with a sickening sen...
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State House pays respects to Hyde, Geo-KarisFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois House paid its respects Thursday to former suburban lawmakers who passed away recently -- Henry Hyde and Adeline Geo-Karis. Hyde was best kno...
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Bolingbrook student recounts panic in classroom during shooting
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Kill sues SIU, challenging breach of contract
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Five people, gunman killed in shooting at NIU lecture hallFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - A former Northern Illinois University student opened fire at the DeKalb campus Thursday and then shot himself, leaving six dead and 15 wounded. At least two of the victi...
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Production halted at Belvidere plantFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - BELVIDERE -- The United Auto Workers union says an "unanticipated parts shortage" has halted production at Chrysler's assembly plant in Belvidere. Production ceased with...
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Peculiarities in the GOP, Democratic presidential racesFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - With metronomic regularity the Clintons say things that remind voters of the aesthetic reason for recoiling from them. Aesthetic considerations even cause many Republica...
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New program will help homeowners avoid foreclosure
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State to close gaps in criminal DNA databaseFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Bureaucratic delays may have resulted in as many as 30,000 convicted felons being released from prison in recent years before providing DNA samples for a ...
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I-55 express bus plannedFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Pace is forging ahead with plans to start a rapid bus transit program on the Stevenson Expressway. Expected to begin in 2009, Pace would likely start the service in Will...