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Less than half of Rockford grads enroll in collegeJun 05, 2011 11:00 pm - ROCKFORD — Less than half of the students who graduated from Rockford schools in 2010 enrolled in college last fall. The Rockford Register Star reports that just 49 perc...
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Food stamps illegally bought, sold on FacebookJun 05, 2011 11:00 pm - MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation into possible fraud in the state's FoodShare benefits program found that some people are illegally buying and sell...
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Berenstain Bears author to visit MidwestJun 05, 2011 11:00 pm - MILWAUKEE — An author and illustrator of the Berenstain Bears books will be in southeastern Wisconsin. Mike Berenstain is the son of Stan and Jan Berenstain, who introdu...
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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...