Articles filed under Illinois
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COVID-19 update: All Illinois restaurant workers now eligible for vaccineMar 29, 2021 1:00 am - Sylvia Masters is seeing some familiar faces again at the breakfast restaurant she owns in Carol Stream. The regulars, the old-timers who used to fill the booths at Map...
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Vaccine sites in Kane, Lake and Will counties will take all eligible IllinoisansMar 29, 2021 1:00 am - Starting this week, new mass vaccination clinics in Kane, Lake and Will counties will offer COVID-19 shots to anyone eligible in the state. Illinois is expanding vaccin...
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Union-backed coalition outlines broad new energy planMar 29, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A coalition of lawmakers and labor unions introduced another regulatory overhaul bill that focuses on employing union workers as the state begins to transi...
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Picking up highway litter costs state $6M a yearMar 28, 2021 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Before you toss trash out the car window while cruising down an Illinois highway, think of this: Taxpayers pay $6 million a year to clean it up....
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Sterling enthusiast opens boxing club in his garageMar 28, 2021 7:00 am - STERLING, Ill. (AP) - Steve Mazzarisi has taken a few blows to the body over his 60 years, but the local boxing enthusiast always gets back up on his feet again. Even wh...
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More than 16% of Illinoisans fully vaccinated; COVID-19 hospitalizations on the riseMar 28, 2021 1:00 am - While Illinois public health officials announced Sunday more than 16% of the state's population is now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, hospitalizations from the virus...
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Book examines 1955 murder in Mattoon, subsequent manhuntMar 27, 2021 7:00 am - MATTOON, Ill. (AP) - Judy Rosella Edwards was born after her sister, 14-year-old Doris L. Edwards, was murdered in 1955, but grew up feeling her absence from the lives o...
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Illinois coronavirus case positivity rate continues its slow climbMar 27, 2021 1:00 am - State numbers for COVID-19 shots, new cases and deaths Friday all fell within the recent range, but the statewide test positivity number continued its slow upward climb,...
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Illinois man fined $250 for accident that killed bicyclistMar 26, 2021 7:00 am - URBANA, Ill. (AP) - A central Illinois man has been convicted of a traffic offense and fined $250 in connection with a highway collision last summer that killed a young ...
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'Bad Apples' bill to end qualified police immunity advances out of committeeMar 26, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A measure to end qualified immunity as a legal defense for law enforcement officers advanced out of the House Restorative Justice Committee at a Thursday h...