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Springfield using buildings as cooling centersJun 05, 2011 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Officials in Springfield are reminding residents that several city buildings have been designated cooling centers this week as temperatures are expected to...
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Catholics agencies in Peoria, Joliet halt adoptionsJun 04, 2011 12:00 am - A Catholic organization that licenses foster and adoptive parents has notified the state that it will halt licensing in two more Illinois cities because of a new law tha...
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Colleges offer calculators to find true costJun 03, 2011 11:00 pm - TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Indiana State University is the latest state college promoting an online calculator to help prospective students determine the real cost of attending...
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Train collision under investigationJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - Federal investigators were trying to determine how a Metra train from Aurora and an Amtrak train headed to Carbondale collided Friday morning at Chicago’s Union Station....
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Ground broken on $95M building at ArgonneJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - Ground has been broken for a $95 million Energy Sciences Building on the campus of Argonne National Laboratory near Darien. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said we need to “invest...
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Shoreline will be first leg of National Recreation TrailJun 03, 2011 12:00 am - A 75-mile stretch of the Lake Michigan shoreline from the North Side of Chicago through northwestern Indiana will become part of a National Recreation Trail. Northwest I...
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Quinn signs Democrats' legislative mapJun 02, 2011 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn Friday signed legislation that redivides the suburbs into new districts for the Illinois General Assembly, giving the region more say in Spr...
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Chicago gambling critics worry mob will followJun 02, 2011 11:00 pm - The way Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sees it, thousands of craps players and slot machine pullers would flock to his cash-strapped city if it gets into the gambling busine...
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Nurse-in' supports right to breast-feed in publicJun 02, 2011 11:00 pm - DEKALB — Families rallied outside a shop in the northern Illinois city of DeKalb to protest the owner's asking a mother to stop breast-feeding in his place of business. ...
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RTA announces plans for changes to free senior ridesJun 01, 2011 12:00 am - Free bus and train rides for Illinois seniors are ending later this summer for all but low-income seniors. The Regional Transportation Authority announced Wednesday a ti...