Articles filed under Illinois
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Fair to start walk-up sales of concert ticketsJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The box office at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield is opening for ticket sales to state fair concerts later this summer. Fair officials say e...
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Illinois leaders seek pension, job cuts to balance budgetJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Top lawmakers pushed Thursday to cut jobs and pensions from state workers as a way to balance the state budget. After a meeting of top legislative leaders with Gov. Pat ...
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Lawsuit filed in Cahokia boy's crushing deathJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - CAHOKIA -- The grandmother of 13-year-old Ryan Hennemann of Cahokia, who was crushed to death by a dump truck April 25 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the tru...
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Crime is down, FBI saysJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Violent crime decreased by 2.5 percent nationwide and property crime declined 1.6 percent from 2007 to 2008, according to a preliminary report issued by the Federal Bure...
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Roger Walker heading for Prisoner Review BoardJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The outgoing head of the Illinois Department of Corrections has landed a new job on the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. Gov. Pat Quinn is replacing Roger ...
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Reform advocates left disappointed after Blagojevich ousterJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Aside from those in charge of Illinois, few seem pleased with the depth of reform to follow the arrest and ouster of Gov. Rod Blagojevich this year. "We are still waitin...
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Obama appoints Cameron Davis as Great Lakes czarJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- President Barack Obama has named Cameron Davis, president of a Chicago-based environmentalist group, to oversee the administration's initiative t...
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Governor makes new pension board picksJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Several suburban residents are among the people Gov. Pat Quinn named to the boards overseeing the Teachers' Retirement System and State Board of Investment...
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Blago: I'm 'Mr. Mom' in wife's TV absenceJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he's "Mr. Mom" during his wife's tenure on an NBC reality show. Blagojevich appeared Wednesday on CNN's "Larry King Live." He ...
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Suburban schools funding could lose political protectionJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - The apparent demise of a more than decade-old political provision thrown into an education funding law could cost nearly a dozen suburban school districts ...