Articles filed under Illinois
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Burris drama plays out as Senate set to begin workJan 03, 2009 10:00 pm - Just days before a high-stakes showdown in the nation's capital, the man selected to take President-elect Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat sought spiritual and po...
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U of I Web site helps people in financial straitsJan 03, 2009 10:00 pm - URBANA -- The University of Illinois has set up a Web site with financial advice for people who have lost their jobs or savings during the current economic downturn. The...
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Blagojevich's federal security clearance revokedJan 02, 2009 10:00 pm - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has revoked embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich's access to classified federal security information, officials said Friday. The move ...
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House pushes up Blago impeachment hearingsJan 02, 2009 10:00 pm - The Illinois legislature on Friday took steps to pick up the pace on Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment, hoping to get him out of office, a new governor in his place and...
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The year 2008 was a wet one in IllinoisJan 01, 2009 10:00 pm - After the skies dumped rain for days on end and so much snow that communities up and down the state had to scramble for more road salt, it likely won't come as a shock t...
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Lincoln envelope design winners announcedJan 01, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Four winners have been chosen in the Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission's envelope design contest. Entrants were asked to submit designs for...
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Activists support Burris appointmentJan 01, 2009 10:00 pm - Activists in Chicago are pushing for lawmakers to accept Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appointment of former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate. At a ne...
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FutureGen backers plan meeting in WashingtonJan 01, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and other members of the Illinois congressional delegation plan to talk next week with President-elect Barack Obama's energy secreta...
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Year-old smoking ban still irks casinos, barsJan 01, 2009 10:00 pm - Walt Karstens stood inside his 74-year-old wood-frame bar in Moline counting his customers, and the empty seats he says would have been filled a year ago. About a dozen ...
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Victims ID'd in Joliet airport plane crashJan 01, 2009 10:00 pm - The National Transportation Safety Board says it appears a small plane carrying a Wisconsin couple was taking off at Joliet Regional Airport when it "took a hard left," ...