Articles filed under Illinois
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Arraignment delayed for 4 in cemetery desecrationSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - A judge in Chicago has delayed the arraignment for four former cemetery workers suspected of digging up corpses and reselling burial plots. The former workers at Burr Oa...
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Illinois has cool, wet summer; average temperature 71.4 degreesSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- The average temperature in Illinois from June through August was 71.4 degrees. The statistic comes from preliminary data released Wednesday from the Illinoi...
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Chrysler ramps up Dodge Caliber production at BelvidereSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Chrysler Group LLC said Wednesday it will boost production of the Dodge Caliber at a plant in Illinois in response to higher demand for the compac...
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Cook County investigators probe Rockford shootingSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - ROCKFORD-- Cook County investigators and U.S. Justice Department mediators are going to Rockford in an attempt bid to restore public confidence after the recent fatal sh...
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Quinn says he'll name U. of Ill. trustees FridaySep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - QUINCY -- Gov. Pat Quinn says he'll appoint five new members to the University of Illinois board of trustees on Friday. Quinn spokesman Bob Reed says Quinn made the stat...
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FutureGen Alliance's board taps new chairmanSep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - MATTOON -- A coalition of coal and power companies planning to build the experimental FutureGen power plant in eastern Illinois has a new chairman. The so-called FutureG...
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Hynes to formally enter governor race todaySep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes is set to formally enter the governor's race by laying out some of his policy proposals. He's staking out his positions in a Democratic pr...
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Police say man shot daughter accidentallySep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Springfield Police say they arrested a 55-year-old man after he allegedly shot his 9-year-old daughter in the head by accident. Springfield Police Lt. Bil...
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Springfield man pleads guilty in murderSep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - JACKSONVILLE -- One of two people charged in the fatal shooting of a Jacksonville man nearly two years has entered a plea agreement with Morgan County prosecutors. In co...
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Run for the border? Tax policies differ here and thereSep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Between Wisconsin hiking cigarette taxes Tuesday and Illinois doing the same to alcohol, it might have drinkers and smokers eying the border for deals. Ill...