Articles filed under Illinois
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Illinois logs 8,000 smoking complaintsDec 28, 2009 10:00 pm - The Illinois Public Health Department has received more than 8,000 smoking-related complaints so far this year. 2009 is the second year of the Smoke Free Illinois Act, w...
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ICC OKs plan to buy wind farm powerDec 28, 2009 10:00 pm - The Illinois Commerce Commission has OKed a plan that would allow the agency that buys electricity on behalf of utility customers to seek proposals for long-term wind-po...
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Rockford man killed in Mo. crashDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - STEELE, Mo. -- An Illinois man and three people from Tennessee have died in a head-on crash in southeast Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash happe...
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2 teens shot, wounded on Chicago busDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Two 14-year-old boys have been shot and injured as they rode on a Chicago Transit Authority bus. Chicago police say the boys were on a bus on the city's South Side Satur...
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Mercury pollution increases in IllinoisDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants is increasing in Illinois -- despite a decline in such pollution nationwide. That's according to a Chicago Tribune analysi...
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6,100 drivers get Breathalyzers in law's 1st yearDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Advocates say a year-old Illinois DUI law is saving countless lives statewide. As of last Jan. 1, Illinois law requires first-time DUI offenders to install a Breathalyze...
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Tinley Park clerk to lead Knights TemplarDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - The aura of the warrior monks who founded the Knights Templar nearly 900 years ago has stirred controversy and fed the appetite of conspiracy theorists for years. In Dan...
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Gov. hopeful Brady bashes suburban competitionDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - State Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington ripped into some of his suburban challengers in the Republican governor's primary Monday for opening the possibility to tax hikes if...
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Worker dies at ISU while removing collapsed columnDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - NORMAL -- A massive concrete column collapsed at Illinois State University on Christmas, and a 57-year-old worker died while trying to remove it. McLean County Coroner B...
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Bradley offers computer gamingDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - PEORIA -- Bradley University wants to get into the game -- the computer game. The computer game industry, so conspicuous during the holiday season with its countless TV ...