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Mob witnesses testify to planted bombs, murders

Associated Press
Jul 26, 2007 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- As both a gun dealer and an undertaker, Ernie Severino was positioned to serve the Chicago mob in various ways. The soft-spoken 60-year-old testified Thursday...
State can't rely on smokers to fund programs

By John Patterson
Jul 26, 2007 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Both critics and supporters of a now 90-cent cigarette tax increase essentially agree that the state can't rely on a steady stream of money from raising c...
Estimated costs of keeping lawmakers in Springfield

Jul 26, 2007 11:00 pm - $613,824, and we're counting This is the estimated cost of keeping lawmakers in Springfield so far. Gov. Rod Blagojevich has ordered them to stay in overtime until they...
State cigarette tax now proposed at 90 cents

By John Patterson
Jul 26, 2007 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Told Thursday that their 75-cent cigarette tax increase likely won't bring in as many millions as first predicted, Senate Democrats responded by adding ano...
Smokers' drag: State ban signed into law

By Eric Krol
Jul 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Starting Jan. 1, smokers won't be able to light up inside restaurants, bars, offices, shopping malls and other indoor public places in Illinois. Gov. Rod Blagojevich sig...
Dems face online queries

Jul 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Dems face online queries: CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Young, Internet-savvy voters challenged Democratic presidential hopefuls on Iraq, the military draft and the candidates' ow...
Small progress on illegal immigration

Jul 23, 2007 11:00 pm - Small progress on illegal immigration Illinois is beginning to make progress in the effort to end the flood of illegal immigrants who are invading our communities. Towns...
Defense mocks mob trial witness's testimony

Associated Press
Jul 23, 2007 11:00 pm - The star witness at the trial of five alleged Chicago underworld figures came under attack Monday from an attorney who accused him of making up his eyewitness account of...
Woman's body found in Chicago closet

Associated Press
Jul 23, 2007 11:00 pm - A Chicago woman's decomposing body was found wrapped in a plastic bag inside a closet, and police said Monday they were questioning the ex-boyfriend of the victim's moth...
Illinois among states warned in cantaloupe recall

Associated Press
Dec 31, 1996 11:00 pm - DENVER — A melon farm in Colorado has issued a recall of cantaloupe, distributed in Illinois and several othe states, following a deadly Listeria outbreak that has sprea...

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