Articles filed under Illinois
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Illinois delegates told to broaden appeal, emphasize successesSep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS - A subsidiary of John McCain's "straight-talk express" stopped at the Illinois Republican delegation breakfast Thursday, with a party icon blaming weak orga...
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SIU-Carbondale enrollment slips; economy blamedSep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - CARBONDALE -- Southern Illinois University says fall enrollment at its flagship Carbondale campus is down and the struggling economy may be to blame for some of it. Inte...
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Catholic school officals speak against violenceSep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago's Roman Catholic educators say they plan to institute programs that will focus on how students can stem bullying and resolve disputes without violence. Catholic ...
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Hastert, Roskam urge state GOP focus on grass rootsSep 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Illinois Republicans turned their focus inward today, as Dennis Hastert and Peter Roskam exhorted state delegates to rebuild the grass roots organization they'll need to...
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Mans pants set on fireSep 02, 2008 11:00 pm - EDWARDSVILLE -- A Metro East man is free on $20,000 bond after being accused of setting another man's pants on fire. Twenty-one-year-old Joseph Hornsey of Godfrey is cha...
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Suburban leaders still seeking viable funding changeSep 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Is there a better way to fund public schools in Illinois? Suburban leaders say yes, even though they haven't seen a workable solution so far. State Sen. James Meeks, a C...
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Illinois GOP's anti-Obama message undercut by hurricaneSep 01, 2008 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS - In Denver, Democrats from Illinois were front and center in championing Barack Obama's work in his home state. During the first day of the Republican conv...
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Ex-track star killed in shootingAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - PEORIA -- Police are investigating a shooting outside a Peoria Christian dance club that killed a former area track star and wounded two others. Police responding to rep...
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Hospitals back open after chemical spillAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS -- The second of two Missouri hospital emergency rooms shut down under quarantine due to a weekend chemical accident at an Illinois storage and mixing plant is...
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3 killed in downstate crashAug 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Authorities in LaSalle County are investigating a single vehicle accident that left three people dead and critically injured another person. In a news release, the LaSal...