Articles filed under Illinois
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State budget impasse delays $9 billion road construction planJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - A $9 billion program of shovel-ready road construction projects that was supposed to create up to 80,000 jobs in Illinois this summer has been delayed due ...
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Ill. prisons chief: no closings yetJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois' new corrections chief says the state's budget situation hasn't prompted officials to make plans for prison closings. Department of Corrections D...
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State will no longer pay for indigent funeralsJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Because of its budget woes, the state of Illinois will no longer pay for funerals for the indigent. In a letter to funeral homes last week announcing the cutback, the De...
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Social service groups decry likely state budget cutsJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - McHenry County social service groups on Tuesday offered to help solve the state's budget impasse. Representatives from six county agencies that serve at-risk clients sai...
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SIU's med school shares in $8.6 million grantJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A scientist at Southern Illinois University's School of Medicine will share in an $8.6 million federal grant to continue his study of aging and longevity....
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Burris interviewed by prosecutorJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Sangamon County state's attorney has interviewed Sen. Roland Burris in a probe into the senator's testimony before a legislative panel looking into hi...
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Would massive state layoffs make recession worse?Jun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - If Illinois state workers are laid off under the bare-bones budget lawmakers approved last month, the effects will go beyond the possibility of criminals b...
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State education leaders to discuss additional spending cutsJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - State education leaders thought they'd submitted a lean budget proposal to the General Assembly earlier this year, but now it looks like they'll have to cut closer to th...
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2 children shot in separate incidentsJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - EAST ST. LOUIS -- A 7-month-old boy and a 5-year-old girl have been shot and wounded in separate incidents in East St. Louis. Police say the girl was asleep in her home ...
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Unpaid days off not an option in IllinoisJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - While Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn could unilaterally start state worker layoffs after giving the employees' union 30 days notice, other states have tried to fi...