Articles filed under Illinois
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Northern Ill. man sentenced in deaths of wife, sister-in-lawFeb 20, 2021 6:00 am - CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) - A Crystal Lake man has been sentenced to 65 years in prison after pleading guilty in the 2017 shooting deaths of his wife and her teenage sist...
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Carla Barnes is first Black judge in 11th Judicial CircuitFeb 20, 2021 6:00 am - BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - Carla Barnes continues to break milestones in the 11th Judicial Circuit Court. Barnes was sworn in Feb. 11 as the first African American judge i...
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63 more deaths from COVID-19 in Illinois, among 2,200 casesFeb 19, 2021 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois public health officials reported 2,219 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 on Friday, with 63 additional deaths. That brings to 1...
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7 Chicago firefighters injured battling coach house fireFeb 19, 2021 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Seven Chicago firefighters were injured battling an extra-alarm fire early Friday in the city's South Side Bridgeport neighborhood, according to fire depa...
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As crashes, injuries mount, task force takes aim at Move Over violatorsFeb 19, 2021 4:30 am - You couldn't blame Illinois State Police for feeling like it's déjà vu all over again, in the worst possible way. Two years after a rash of roadside crashes left two sta...
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State tops 2 million vaccine doses givenFeb 19, 2021 12:00 am - More than 2 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Illinois, state health officials reported Friday. Of the 2,060,706 doses that have now gone i...
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Ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to resign seatFeb 18, 2021 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois state Rep. Michael Madigan, a Chicago Democrat who virtually set Illinois' political agenda as House speaker before he was ousted last ...
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2 more mass vaccination sites to open in southern IllinoisFeb 18, 2021 6:00 am - BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - More mass COVID-19 vaccination sites are slated to open this week in southern Illinois, news that comes as nearly 2 millions doses have been admi...
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Correction: Illinois-State Budget storyFeb 18, 2021 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - In a Feb. 17 story about Gov. J.B. Pritzker's budget proposal, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the proposal relied for revenue on...
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Bankers say economy is improving in rural parts of 10 statesFeb 18, 2021 6:00 am - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The economy is slowly improving in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states, but employment remains below the level it was at before the coronaviru...