Illinois
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Supreme Court sidesteps several new gun cases, including challenge to assault weapons ban in Illinois
Jul 02, 2024 10:16 am - The Supreme Court sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights Tuesday, declining to hear a challenge to an assault weapons ban in Illinois and sending other gun cases back to lower courts, including a challenge to the law used to convict Hunter Biden.
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Struggling with falling demand for farm equipment, Deere & Co. announces nearly 600 layoffs
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Officials evacuate area after train derails in suburban ChicagoJun 27, 2024 6:46 pm - MATTESON — Emergency officials ordered what turned out to be a relatively brief evacuation after a freight train derailed in suburban Chicago on Thursday. The Canadian Na...
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US Sen. Dick Durbin undergoes hip replacement surgery in home state of Illinois
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Illinois may soon return land the US stole from a Prairie Band Potawatomi chief 175 years ago
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State highway shootings decline as critics sue over ‘dragnet surveillance’
Jun 23, 2024 7:59 am - Illinois State Police say an automated license plate reader program has helped the agency identify witnesses or suspects in 82 percent of highway shooting cases this year, including all eight that resulted in a death.
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Suspect in shooting of 3 deputies in Illinois had multiple firearms, sheriff saysJun 13, 2024 1:49 pm - DIXON — A man accused of shooting and wounding three sheriff's deputies during a standoff at a home in northern Illinois had multiple firearms in his possession, authorit...
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3 deputies shot while responding to northern Illinois home, suspect also wounded, official says
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Downstate judge blocks law banning newly slated candidates from ballot
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A 19th century flag disrupts leadership at an Illinois museum and prompts a state investigation