Articles filed under Illinois
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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...
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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...