Illinois
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How to make your vote count TuesdayFeb 02, 2008 10:00 pm - If you're not careful in the voting booth Tuesday, your vote for president may not count. In the Republican race, the top-ballot votes for president are considered a mea...
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Make way for young voting blocFeb 02, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Music has long been a facet of the Illinois treasurer's office. For years it was Republican Judy Baar Topinka and her accordion. Now, however, the office ...
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Vandalism suspect heldFeb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - Authorities say a 21-year-old man faces hate crime charges for defacing nearly 60 graves with swastikas and anti-Semitic phrases in a primarily Jewish cemetery near Norr...
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Citgo pays for violationsFeb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - Citgo Petroleum Corp. has paid more than $155,000 in fines over unsafe working conditions discovered at its refinery in Lemont. The Occupational Safety and Health Admini...
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Five dead in clothing store attack in Tinley Park
Feb 01, 2008 10:00 pm - A gunman fatally shot five people in a robbery at a store in a suburban Chicago strip mall and fled Saturday, prompting police to sweep through neighboring shops as ter...
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Briefs: $10 million for schoolsJan 31, 2008 10:00 pm - Three underperforming Chicago high schools are expected to benefit from a little more than $10 million to be donated by the Gates Foundation to help convert them into te...
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Republican Senate candidates have little experience but firm opinionsJan 31, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Among the few things the three Republican U.S. Senate hopefuls have in common would be that none of them has ever been elected before. But on most other i...
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State cheerleading finals down to one dayJan 31, 2008 10:00 pm - The Illinois cheerleading championships are down to one day -- and everything will ride on one performance only. Alarmed by the weather and the travel conditions, the Il...
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Romney likens McCain tactics to Nixon's
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GOP turns up heat here, while Clinton backs offJan 31, 2008 10:00 pm - Republicans ratcheted up their push for suburban votes Thursday as the Hillary Clinton campaign appeared to back away from a costly fight in Barack Obama's home state. ...