Articles filed under Illinois
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A year later, still no answers about missing wifeOct 27, 2008 11:00 pm - It's been a year of hope and hype, despair and denials in the search for missing Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson. Today is the anniversary of Peterson's disappearance....
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Lincoln Library head fired over shoplifting chargeOct 27, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The head of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield has been fired after his second shoplifting arrest. Director Rick Beard had been on ad...
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East St. Louis mayor's home is robbedOct 27, 2008 11:00 pm - EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. _ Police are investigating a break-in at the home of East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks. Parks says no one was home during Friday's burglary. It appe...
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Rockford Airport adds new routeOct 27, 2008 11:00 pm - A north-central Illinois airport says it's adding a new route to woo more travelers. Chicago Rockford International Airport says the flights to the Fort Myers, Florida, ...
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Ex-U of I coach faces DUI chargeOct 27, 2008 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- A University of Illinois gymnastics coach who resigned this month for unspecified personal reasons is facing a drunk-driving charge in Wisconsin. Waukesha C...
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State offers more help for winter heating billsOct 26, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois officials say the state will have an extra $118 million this year to help low-income families with their winter heating costs. Gov. Rod Blagojevi...
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U of I gets $2 million for biofuel infrastructure studyOct 26, 2008 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- The National Science Foundation will give the University of Illinois $2 million to study transportation and other infrastructure needed to support the new M...
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Quincy man arrested in fatal fireOct 26, 2008 11:00 pm - QUINCY -- Quincy police say they have arrested a former resident of an apartment building where three people died after a suspicious fire Saturday morning. Quincy Police...
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State speeds up plan to close Pontiac prisonOct 24, 2008 11:00 pm - PONTIAC _ The Illinois Department of Corrections has moved up the date it plans to close a prison in Pontiac, telling unions that represent workers there the lockup will...
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Wind turbine blade crashes down in corn fieldOct 24, 2008 11:00 pm - An India-based company that made a wind turbine that broke and dropped a 6.5-ton blade into an Illinois corn field this week says it is fixing blades on more than 400 tu...