Articles filed under Illinois
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Regulators take over troubled Illinois bankFeb 15, 2009 10:00 pm - Banks in four U.S. states with more than $1 billion in assets were closed in a single day, boosting the toll of seized lenders to 13 this year and further draining a dep...
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100 years ago, the NAACP began in SpringfieldFeb 15, 2009 10:00 pm - The bookends of the NAACP's century testify to the changes it has wrought. In 1908, a deadly race riot in Springfield led to the birth of the National Association for t...
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NIU announces Feb. 14 Memorial GardenFeb 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Northern Illinois University announced plans Saturday for a permanent memorial to the victims of the shooting that claimed the lives of five students one year ago. The u...
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Why doesn't Gov. Quinn have more Facebook friends?Feb 14, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Why doesn't anyone want to be Pat Quinn's friend? Two weeks after becoming governor, Quinn's supporter count on the social networking Web site Facebook is ...
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Suburban students win memorial scholarshipsFeb 14, 2009 10:00 pm - When Scott Hudek heard there was a shooting in Cole Hall, he thought it was a joke. As the U.S. Air Force veteran's instincts guided his feet toward the red brick buildi...
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Youth orchestra salutes LincolnFeb 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Leave it to the creative staff at Schaumburg's Prairie Center for the Arts to come up with a multidisciplinary celebration of the Lincoln bicentennial. No ordinary exhib...
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GOP wants Burris/Blagojevich donation request investigatedFeb 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Sen. Roland Burris admitted in a document released Saturday that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's brother asked him for campaign fundraising help before the governor appoin...
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Metra sees jump in ridershipFeb 14, 2009 10:00 pm - New statistics show that Metra provided nearly 87 million passenger trips during 2008. The suburban Chicago commuter train line has issued its ticket sales figures for l...
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Photo gallery: NIU remembersFeb 13, 2009 10:00 pm - ...
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SIU-C administrator accused of lying retiresFeb 13, 2009 10:00 pm - CARBONDALE -- An administrator at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale who is accused of lying about his military record will retire next month. The university sai...