Articles filed under Illinois
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Local leaders urge unity after Dallas shootingJul 08, 2016 1:00 am - Following the late-night killing of five police officers in Dallas and two men in Minnesota and Louisiana in the days before, top local leaders asked Illinoisans for uni...
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Kirk calls Trump "Eastern, privileged, wealthy bully."Jul 07, 2016 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois says Donald Trump is an "Eastern, privileged, wealthy bully." Trump called Kirk, one of the more vulnerable GOP i...
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Woman discovers she's pregnant, gives birth on same dayJul 07, 2016 7:00 am - FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) - An Illinois woman says she delivered a baby girl a few hours after she found out she was 39-weeks pregnant. The Hawk Eye (http://bit.ly/29lanYd...
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Illinois Holocaust Museum event to honor Elie WieselJul 07, 2016 7:00 am - SKOKIE, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Holocaust Museum is planning a special event to honor the life of Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel (EL'-ee vee-ZEHL'). ...
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Keeping raccoons, skunks stirs stink in Illinois townJul 07, 2016 7:00 am - QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - City officials in Quincy are learning that local laws may not give them much room to prevent a local woman from keeping skunks and raccoons at her ho...
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Exelon notifies grid operator of planned plant closureJul 07, 2016 7:00 am - CORDOVA, Ill. (AP) - Exelon Generation says it has formally notified a grid operator of its plans to retire the Quad-Cities Generating Station, one of two Illinois nucle...
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Illinois budget uncertainty could affect tuition grantsJul 07, 2016 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Student Assistance Commission has warned that continued uncertainty over state funding for tuition-assistance grants could jeopardi...
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How much does your school district get in the new state budget?Jul 07, 2016 1:00 am - Some of the suburbs' largest school districts and those that have pushed hardest for changes to Illinois' education funding will get the biggest budget bump under the pl...
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U of Illinois' rescued eagle gets a name: RiverJul 06, 2016 7:00 am - URBANA, Ill. (AP) - A bald eagle that's taken up residence at the University of Illinois Wildlife Medical Clinic now has a lifelong reminder of the moment it was rescued...
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Rockford police find decomposed remains in garbage canJul 06, 2016 7:00 am - ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - A northern Illinois coroner says she believes bones and other material found in a garbage can outside an apartment is a partially decomposed body. ...