Articles filed under Illinois
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State funds ease SIU's cash crunch _ for nowDec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - CARBONDALE -- Southern Illinois University says it now has enough funding to make it to at least next March. The chancellor of the university's flagship Carbondale campu...
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Topinka attempts political comebackDec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - When Republican Judy Baar Topinka ran for governor in 2006, she warned that incumbent Democrat Rod Blagojevich was a ticking ethics time bomb who was bankrupting the sta...
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Attorney general says governor may sell prisonDec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says the governor does not need approval from the General Assembly to sell a prison in Thomson to the federal gover...
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H1N1 flu activity continues to slow in IllinoisDec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - Swine flu is easing its grip on Illinois where officials reported two new deaths from the virus. Friday's weekly update from the Illinois Department of Public Health inc...
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Illinois' unemployment rates dips to 10.9 percentDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - Illinois' unemployment rate dropped ever-so-slightly in November to 10.9 percent. But state officials don't see it as a reason to rejoice just yet. They say the slight d...
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New charges against grandmother accused in killingDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - VIRGINIA -- A Cass County grandmother charged in the shooting death of her granddaughter's estranged husband is now accused of earlier trying to hire two men to kill him...
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Ill. high court delays rule on medical malpracticeDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Supreme Court is not yet issuing an opinion on whether the state's medical malpractice law is constitutional. The court announced earlier thi...
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Draft nursing home report expected in JanuaryDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - They saw mentally ill residents crowded three and four to a room, residents wandering hallways or playing bingo, and very little in the way of therapy. Members of an Ill...
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Library gets record back after 47 years ... but no longer has themDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - EAST PEORIA -- You can't blame the person who recently returned an old record to a central Illinois library for slipping quickly out the door. The record was a little la...
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Quinn says no violent criminals in release programDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn says he'd barred anyone convicted of violent crimes from taking part in an early prison release program. He told reporters Thursday that he gave those spe...