Articles filed under Illinois
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Pritzker's mask rule survives legislative panel voteAug 11, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A legislative panel that oversees the state's administrative rule-making process voted along partisan lines to allow Gov. JB Pritzker's emergency rule to e...
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Illinois reports 1,319 confirmed new COVID-19 cases, 1 deathAug 10, 2020 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Housing Development Authority on Monday announced an emergency housing assistance program for Illinoisans fi...
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1 killed, 4 wounded in western Kentucky shootingAug 10, 2020 7:00 am - PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - One person was killed and four others were wounded in a weekend shooting in western Kentucky, authorities said. Officers responded late Saturday to a...
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EPA, U of I develop school course on food wasteAug 10, 2020 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has worked with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to create an educational unit on foo...
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Danville college collects facemasks for neighboring schoolAug 10, 2020 7:00 am - DANVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Danville Area Community College's partnership last year with a nearby grade school fell by the wayside when the coronavirus pandemic hit. The best...
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Riser set to become Caledonia's 1st Black female officerAug 10, 2020 7:00 am - CALEDONIA, Wis. (AP) - Kiara Riser started losing friends in high school when it became clear she wanted to be a cop. Nobody told her why she wasn't being invited to any...
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Looters descend on downtown Chicago; more than 100 arrestedAug 10, 2020 1:00 am - Hundreds of looters and vandals descended on downtown Chicago early Monday following a police shooting on the city's South Side, smashing the windows of dozens of busine...
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Lawsuit seeks $450 million from ComEd, MadiganAug 10, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A group of ComEd customers asked a federal judge Monday to force the utility company, House Speaker Michael Madigan and others to pay "at least" $450 milli...
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Pritzker announces launch of rent, mortgage aid programsAug 10, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday announced a pair of housing assistance programs aimed at helping lower-income households meet their rent and mortgage payments...
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Illinois reports 1,319 new COVID-19 cases, 1 deathAug 10, 2020 1:00 am - New cases of COVID-19 increased by 1,319 Monday and one person died of the respiratory disease, the Illinois Department of Public Health said. That brings the total case...