Articles filed under Illinois
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Advocate, BCBS partner on new low-cost health care planOct 19, 2015 5:40 am - Downers Grove-based Advocate Health Care and Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois have partnered on a new low-cost health care plan that opened Sunday on...
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Records: $200,000 for ex-Illinois education superintendentOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - State records show that the former Illinois education superintendent left the position earlier this year with nearly $207,000 in severance and unused vacation payments. ...
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Ex-Gov. Edgar: Rauner shouldn't 'hold the budget hostage'Oct 19, 2015 1:00 am - Former Gov. Jim Edgar says Gov. Bruce Rauner shouldn't “hold the budget hostage” while calling for other state government reforms. Edgar was governor in the 1990s. The ...
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State owes suburbs millions in gambling taxesOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - Illinois gamblers lost more than $227 million to machines at bars, restaurants and gas stations in the first 90 days of the state budget impasse, but local governments h...
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Fitch downgrades Illinois' credit rating due to budget fightOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - A major credit rating agency has downgraded Illinois' rating on outstanding bonds because of the state budget crisis. Fitch Ratings on Monday lowered the rating on $26 ...
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A former Cubs prospect, Jesse White learned from Ernie BanksOct 18, 2015 7:30 am - When Secretary of State Jesse White was a young Chicago Cubs prospect in the early 1960s, legendary slugger Ernie Banks would hold court at spring training dinners with ...
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Southwest Illinois residents lose power after vehicle crashOct 18, 2015 7:00 am - BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say thousands of southwest Illinois residents were without power after a vehicle crashed into a utility pole. The Belleville News-Dem...
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Central Illinois woman stole $48,000 from grandmotherOct 18, 2015 7:00 am - PEKIN, Ill. (AP) - A central Illinois woman will have to serve a year of weekends in jail for stealing $48,000 from her grandmother. The sentence will allow 36-year-old ...
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Budget impasse sparks questions and warnings from vendorsOct 18, 2015 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A newspaper report says the budget impasse has led to some vendors stopping services provided to state facilities but the Capitol isn't in immin...
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About 70 Wind Cave bison to be transferred to preservesOct 18, 2015 7:00 am - WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. (AP) - Bison from Wind Cave National Park are scheduled to be transferred to preserves in South Dakota and other states to help form new or...