Articles filed under Illinois
-
Burris won't seek election to Senate in 2010Jul 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Apparently reading the writing on the wall, embattled Sen. Roland Burris is set to announce today that he will not seek election to the post he was handed by ousted Gov....
-
State officials report increase in swine fluJul 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois health officials have started planning for a massive vaccine campaign this fall that could target both seasonal and swine flu. Dr. Damon Arnold, head of the Ill...
-
Class-action lawsuit filed in cemetery desecrationJul 09, 2009 11:00 pm - A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of people who have relatives buried at a suburban Chicago cemetery where bodies were allegedly removed from graves and du...
-
Cemetery workers made $300K in gravedigging schemeJul 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have stretch...
-
Groups blasts plans to spend stimulus funds on high-speed railJul 09, 2009 11:00 pm - A Chicago-based conservative group is blasting plans to spend federal stimulus money on high-speed rail in Illinois and elsewhere around the country. Some $8 billion is ...
-
350 dogs seized in dogfighting raids in 5 statesJul 08, 2009 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS -- As many as 350 dogs were seized and about 30 people arrested during raids in five states Wednesday that animal welfare groups are calling the largest simul...
-
What is Madigan thinking?Jul 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Having a governor and a U.S. senator leave office created a ripe opportunity for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to climb the political ladder - yet she chose not...
-
Ill. financial aid agency in limbo over budgetJul 08, 2009 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- Deanna Childress is a 21-year-old college senior, but she says that without grants provided by the state of Illinois she might not be. Childress has used mo...
-
Some 300 graves tampered with at Burr Oak CemeteryJul 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Prosecutors on Thursday charged three gravediggers and a manager in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic black cemetery near Chicag...
-
U of I starts sending documents to U.S. AttorneyJul 08, 2009 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- The University of Illinois has turned over more than 200 pages of documents to federal prosecutors looking for evidence that ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich tri...