Articles filed under Illinois
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Illinois police hope technology helps ID head found in 1993Jan 24, 2022 6:00 am - MOUNT VERNON, Ind. (AP) - Southern Illinois police are hoping technologies not available three decades ago can help them identify a woman whose head was found in 1993 in...
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Court weighing whether to block school COVID mitigations statewideJan 24, 2022 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A Sangamon County judge is considering a motion to block Illinois schools from requiring people to wear masks in classes and excluding students and staff m...
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State surpasses 30,000 COVID-19 deaths even as new cases, hospitalizations decreaseJan 24, 2022 12:00 am - New COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue a welcome downslide, Illinois Department of Public Health data showed Monday. However, the state reached a sobering mile...
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Pritzker compromise would give teachers extra sick leave for COVID-19 - if they are vaccinatedJan 24, 2022 12:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker vetoed a bill Monday that would have required COVID-19 related paid leave for teachers and staff at public schools and universities in favor of a new ...
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Illinois group knits, crochets, sews, quilts for charitiesJan 23, 2022 6:00 am - ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) - In front of the TV. In waiting rooms. On planes. A group of women in Lake County has spent countless hours knitting, crocheting and, more...
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Flags lowered to honor slain Illinois child welfare workerJan 22, 2022 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Flags at Illinois state office buildings were lowered for three days to honor a child welfare worker who was stabbed to death this month. Gov....
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Constable: Blizzard? Prairie fires once were 'demons' in what's now the suburbsJan 22, 2022 12:00 am - We suburbanites complain about the cold and snow. We're a few months away from griping about the heat and humidity. We dread droughts, fear floods, carp about coyotes, a...
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Mix-up leads to switched verdict in Illinois murder trialJan 21, 2022 6:00 am - PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A jury's paperwork mix-up resulted in a central Illinois judge announcing a not guilty verdict in a murder trial, only to inform the defendant minute...
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ICU COVID-19 patients drop below 1,000 for first time this yearJan 21, 2022 12:00 am - The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care has dropped below 1,000 for the first time in 2022. Illinois Department of Public Health officials are reporting 972 of...
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Louis Vuitton stages Virgil Abloh swansong in ParisJan 20, 2022 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Louis Vuitton pulled out the stops Thursday to present the final collection of Virgil Abloh, the house's first African-American creative director who died i...