Articles filed under Illinois
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Illinois Republican react to McCain speechSep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Republicans in Springfield were mostly quiet as they watched standard bearer John McCain's acceptance speech. But when McCain was finished, they expressed...
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Judge orders cops to release Stebic's gunsSep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - A judge has ordered the Illinois State Police to hand over 24 guns seized from a suburban Chicago man whose wife has been missing for more than a year to a friend of the...
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Madigan to ICC: Nicor hike too high, unnecessarySep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Attorney General Lisa Madigan Thursday filed written testimony urging the Illinois Commerce Commission to deny rate increase requests from Naperville-based Nicor Gas tha...
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State workers' union OKs 4-year contractSep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Members of Illinois' largest state employees union have approved a four-year contract that increases their pay 15.25 percent. The American Federation of S...
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Downstate man could become youngest congressman at 27Sep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Aaron Schock is Hollywood-handsome, single and smart. He's also ambitious. At 19, he unseated the president of the Peoria, Ill., school board with 60 perce...
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Downstate man admits to murder plotSep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - BENTON -- A Dec. 5 sentencing date is set for a former southern Illinois man who plotted to have witnesses killed in a sexual-assault case that eventually landed him in ...
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Boycott over, Meeks to meet with BlagojevichSep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - The state senator who led a school boycott to protest underfunded Chicago schools cut it short after two days and said Thursday he will be talking to Gov. Rod Blagojevic...
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Suspect in 8 murders could face executionSep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - GALESBURG _ Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a 29-year-old man suspected of eight killings this summer in Illinois and Missouri. Knox County State's Attorne...
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Illinois House returning to CapitolSep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has called his members back to work next week in Springfield, a gathering Gov. Rod Blagojevich hopes might break the logjam over a...
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John Edwards backs out of U of I speechSep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - URBANA -- Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards canceled an October speech at the University of Illinois and says he won't make any public appearances unti...