Articles filed under Illinois
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EXCHANGE: Urbana and Champaign pay homeless to help clean upOct 28, 2018 7:00 am - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - There's a lot separating Albuquerque, N.M., and Champaign-Urbana. But now the homeless in both places have something in common: They're able to wo...
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$4.5M grant to ease transition for Ill. foster-care adultsOct 28, 2018 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois has received a $4.5 million grant to help older foster children make the transition to living on their own. The Illinois Department of ...
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Illinois governor in tough re-election bid after budget woesOct 27, 2018 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, who swept into office four years ago as a self-made millionaire and an outsider promising fiscal austerity, lower ta...
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Caterpillar's move left behind 12,000 workersOct 27, 2018 7:00 am - PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Peoria wasn't always a company town. It was a distillery town, a farm implement town and a river town before the Caterpillar Tractor Co. set up shop....
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Trump calls Pittsburgh synagogue attack 'evil' anti-SemitismOct 27, 2018 7:00 am - MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (AP) - President Donald Trump mourned the dead and forcefully condemned anti-Semitism Saturday after a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that lef...
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Couple marks 70 years since 'marriage mill' elopementOct 27, 2018 7:00 am - CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) - Melvin and Randy Berlin ambled across a busy Main Street to once again stand in the shadow of the old Lake County Courthouse. "We thought that C...
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Trump campaigns to eager crowd in southern Illinois, calling state 'such a special place'Oct 27, 2018 1:00 am - MURPHYSBORO, Ill. - President Donald Trump went ahead with a campaign stop Saturday afternoon in downstate Illinois, condemning the deadly attack on a Pittsburgh synagog...
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Chicago's known for Capone, but gangsters held sway in the suburbs and beyondOct 27, 2018 1:00 am - When it came to organized crime in Illinois, Chicago-based Prohibition-era gangsters loomed large during the 1920s and 1930s. Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Lester “Baby Face N...
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Scholarship to honor of late SIU Carbondale chancellorOct 26, 2018 7:00 am - CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - A scholarship at Southern Illinois University has been established in honor of the chancellor who died this month . The (Carbonda...
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Mortgage lender pays $1.3M after fraudulent loan activityOct 26, 2018 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois regulators have disciplined a Lake Forest-based mortgage lending operation over negligent supervision of a branch office. ...