Articles filed under Illinois
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Illinois professors track, research parakeetsSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Three Illinois biology professors have started the "Chicago Parakeet Project." The biologists are hoping the public can help them gather information about the city's mon...
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Bankrupt Aventine posts $4.8 million lossSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Ethanol producer Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. reported a $48.5 million net loss in August on sales of $190 million. The loss included $43.5 million in reorga...
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Proposed federal agency has consumer groups, chambers at oddsSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - In the shadow of the health care reform controversy, President Obama's legislation to create a federal agency to oversee financial companies and their loan products sold...
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Group hands state 'C' grade on financial stabilitySep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - If Illinois had parents, they wouldn't be too happy with the state's economic grade card. An advocacy group, the Corporation for Enterprise Development, gave the state a...
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Illinois gets $350,000 nutrition grantSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois will get a $350,000 federal grant to fight childhood obesity and pitch an active lifestyle to schoolchildren. The State Board of Education will a...
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5 family members found dead in Central IllinoisSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - BEASON -- Residents of a tiny central Illinois farming community are waiting anxiously as authorities search for suspects in the slayings of five members of a local fami...
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Corrections chief: Early releases to start within monthSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The first prison inmates to go home under Illinois' new early release program could be out within a month, the director of the state Corrections Departmen...
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Blago lawyer: fundraiser will 'speak from grave'Sep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - An attorney for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Tuesday that former political fundraiser Christopher G. Kelly, who died in an apparent suicide two weeks ago, "will spea...
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Oberman running for treasurerSep 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Democrat Justin Oberman is running for Illinois treasurer instead of lieutenant governor. Oberman told supporters in an e-mail Monday that the treasurer's job is the rig...
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Quinn preps for 2010 CensusSep 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has named a suburban Chicago village president as state liaison for the 2010 Census. Quinn says Andre Ashmore, village president of south suburba...