Articles filed under Illinois
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Sam Skinner mourns loss of mentor, friend Jim ThompsonAug 15, 2020 1:00 am - Sam Skinner heard the sad news Friday night when he received a call from Jayne Thompson. Her husband, former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson, had died at age 84 in Chicago. ...
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Weather Service confirms 14 tornadoes hit northern IllinoisAug 14, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Survey teams with the National Weather Service have confirmed that 14 tornadoes touched down Monday in northern Illinois when a rare storm known as a dere...
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How the deal to turn McCormick Place into a $66M field hospital happenedAug 14, 2020 1:00 am - Taxpayers spent nearly $66 million fashioning McCormick Place into an emergency coronavirus hospital with 2,750 beds this past spring amid fears that COVID-19 patients w...
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Weather Service confirms 14 tornadoes hit northern IllinoisAug 14, 2020 1:00 am - Survey teams with the National Weather Service have confirmed that 14 tornadoes touched down Monday in northern Illinois when a rare storm known as a derecho swept parts...
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New COVID-19 cases push past 2,000 again; Kane, Will counties put in 'warning level'Aug 14, 2020 1:00 am - New cases of COVID-19 surged by 2,264 Friday, a 73% increase from a month ago, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported. The development mirrors last week when ...
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Number of confirmed Illinois COVID-19 cases passes 200,000Aug 13, 2020 7:00 am - BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Illinois has surpassed 200,000 with the Department of Public Health's announcement Thursday of 1,834 n...
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Illinois man gets 60 years for sex with child who got HIVAug 13, 2020 7:00 am - ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - A northern Illinois man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a child who later tested positive for HIV has been sentenced to 60 years in priso...
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Longtime Illinois state senator hit with federal tax chargeAug 13, 2020 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Longtime state Sen. Terry Link was charged in federal court Thursday with filing a false tax return, the latest Illinois lawmaker to face public corruptio...
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Body ID'd after being found in car at Cahokia car dealershipAug 13, 2020 7:00 am - CAHOKIA, Ill. (AP) - A coroner has identified the decomposed remains of a woman whose body was found inside a car parked at an automotive repair shop and car dealership ...
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Dentist who committed fraud, sentenced to 366 days in prisonAug 13, 2020 7:00 am - BENTON, Ill. (AP) - A Missouri man who practiced dentistry in southern Illinois was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in prison for fraud despite a probation recomm...