Articles filed under Illinois
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Judith Krug, founder of Banned Books Week, diesApr 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Judith Krug, a director of the Chicago-based American Library Association and founder of its Banned Books Week, has died. She was 69. Judith Platt, president of the ALA'...
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Quinn pardons 11, seeks clear clemency backlogApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn on Friday pardoned 11 people and ordered their criminal records expunged, part of an effort to clear a "shameful" backlog of almost 2,500 clemency request...
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Quinn 'not really excited about' speed camerasApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn is frowning upon a proposal to allow speed enforcement via camera. Quinn said Friday he was "not really excited about" the idea, but he didn't completely...
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Gov. Quinn says he's open to property tax breakApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn said Friday he was open to proposals for property tax relief to take the sting out of his plan for an income tax hike. Quinn said on WBBM-AM 780's At Iss...
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2 dead in north central Ill. plane crashApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - SANDWICH -- The Federal Aviation Administration says two people have died in a plane crash in north central Illinois. FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says a 1946-er...
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Lawmakers look to raise cigarette tax againApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- One of Bill McCloskey's gas stations used to sell 110,000 packs of cigarettes a month before a $2 Cook County sales tax kicked in three years ago. Now it ...
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Quinn signs regulations for alternative gas suppliersApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation Friday designed to protect Illinois residents from misleading business practices of dishonest alternative gas suppliers. "The protectio...
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Funeral directors subpoena BurrisApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A group of funeral directors who say they have lost millions of dollars from mismanagement of a pre-need funeral trust fund have filed a subpoena against ...
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Quinn to make Monday stops at Harper, Hoffman EstatesApr 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn is set to attend a brief public question-and-answer session at Harper College in Palatine Monday before heading to a fundraiser in his honor in Hoffman Es...
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Is speed-camera plan really safe?Apr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - When a suburban man with 60 traffic tickets smashed his Ferrari into another car, killing the driver, her 4-year-old son and himself in 2005, state and loc...