Articles filed under Illinois
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Why some new state laws already are in effect but others aren'tJun 26, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Starting Monday, July 1, it will officially become illegal in Illinois for anyone to sell or provide tobacco cigarettes or other tobacco products to people...
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Mattoon teacher who subdued shooter named Carnegie heroJun 25, 2019 7:00 am - MATTOON, Ill. (AP) - A central Illinois teacher has been named a Carnegie hero after subduing a teen who opened fire at Mattoon High School in September 2017. The Carneg...
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Illinois home health care workers to get back pay this weekJun 25, 2019 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - More than 49,000 employees of the Illinois Department of Human Services who provide home health care will get long-overdue backpay this week. Il...
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Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in IllinoisJun 25, 2019 7:00 am - June 24, 2019 Chicago Sun-Times Imagine an America in which every child starts off on the right foot Babies, as it turns out, learn more, and earlier, than most of us kn...
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Pritzker signs law legalizing recreational marijuana in IllinoisJun 25, 2019 1:00 am - Recreational marijuana use and possession will be legal in Illinois beginning Jan. 1 after Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday signed a bill that includes a process...
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Civil War reenactment cancelled again after reinstatementJun 24, 2019 7:00 am - WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - Unspecified security concerns have forced the cancellation of this year's Civil War reenactment at a northeastern Illinois forest preserve. Civil W...
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Illinois court tosses conviction over Facebook photoJun 24, 2019 7:00 am - ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - An appellate court has tossed a central Illinois man's gun conviction, ruling a lower court shouldn't have allowed a Facebook photograph of him sta...
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15-year-old Illinois boy dies in Michigan dirt bike crashJun 24, 2019 7:00 am - ARBELA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Authorities say a 15-year-old Illinois boy has died after a crash during a dirt bike race in Michigan. The Tuscola County sheriff's office ...
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Doubled state gas tax just a start. State law will cost you in other ways, tooJun 24, 2019 5:00 am - Location is everything when it comes to who pays the most in gasoline taxes to fix the state's highways and transit system. Lawmakers in early June agreed to double the ...
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Retired Galesburg firefighter surprised at 95th birthdayJun 23, 2019 7:00 am - GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) - There was a surprise awaiting Robert Redfern June 4. At Galesburg's Elks' lodge his friends, former coworkers and family gathered to celebrate of ...