Articles filed under Illinois
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Eberts donate $1 million to U of IApr 22, 2009 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- University of Illinois film students should start exercising their thumbs. Film critic Roger Ebert and his wife Chaz have donated $1 million to his alma mat...
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Roger Ebert's boyhood home marked with plaqueApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - URBANA -- Film critic Roger Ebert's boyhood home is getting the thumbs up. Officials in Urbana decided to honor the Chicago Sun-Times critic by placing a bronze plaque o...
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Duckworth nomination to top VA post advancesApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - A U.S. Senate committee has approved Tammy Duckworth's nomination to a top job in the federal Department of Veterans Affairs. The full Senate must now appr...
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Illinois prof says economic fix starts with gambling banApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - With unemployment in Illinois now at 9.1 percent and the state facing an estimated $12.4 billion budget deficit, the easiest way to fix the Illinois' econo...
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Trucker killed in I-57 crashApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - BENTON -- Illinois State Police are investigating a chain-reaction crash that killed a Minnesota truck driver on Interstate 57 in southern Illinois. Authorities say 39-y...
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Champaign man found dead at food plantApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - A 46-year-old Champaign man has been found dead at a soon-to-close food plant. Champaign Fire Department spokeswoman Dena Schumacher says a co-worker found Kurt Davis ar...
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Suspicious package found in state buildingApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - MOUNT VERNON -- Authorities in southern Illinois are analyzing the remains of a suspicious package that a bomb squad destroyed with a water cannon as a precaution. Deput...
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Woman accused of shooting boyfriend's dogApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - GRANITE CITY -- A southwestern Illinois woman is jailed on charges that she shot a boyfriend's dog that later had to be euthanized. Madison County prosecutors on Monday ...
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Quinn defends process of releasing tax formsApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is defending his decision to show his income tax returns only to people who make appointments to see them at his Chicago and Springfield offices....
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Mother of slain boys wants judge investigatedApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The mother of two central Illinois boys found dead with their father has asked the state to investigate the conduct of a judge who allowed the father unsu...