Articles filed under Illinois
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50,000 pounds of ribs go up in smokeApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - HAZEL CREST -- Twenty-five tons of beef ribs went up in smoke overnight after the truck in which they were transported caught fire in the South suburbs. Illinois State P...
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Immigration activists hope marches resonate with votersApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Immigration activists and civil rights leaders are gearing up for rallies and marches in cities across the nation, hoping to revive the stagnant immigration debate in ti...
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Newspaper carrier finds woman pinned by husband's dead bodyApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Newspaper carrier Bruce Pitts knew the elderly couple only by the prayers the wife made for him while he was working at night and in bad weather, but he felt something w...
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Blaine's next stunt today on live 'Oprah'Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - He spent 44 days suspended from a glass box by the River Thames in London. He was buried alive for a week in a see-through coffin in New York City. Magician David Blain...
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Counterfeit sneakers seized from Chicago-area storage unitApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Suburban Chicago police officers say they're investigating a counterfeit ring after they discovered 15,000 pairs of fake Nike sneakers in a storage unit last week. The s...
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Media take R. Kelly appeal to Illinois Supreme CourtApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago-area media outlets have taken their fight to gain greater access to the pretrial proceedings in the R. Kelly child pornography case to the Illinois Supreme Court...
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Senate rejects income tax constitutional amendmentApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- State lawmakers have again shot down an effort to let voters decide if Illinois' income tax structure should be reworked. The Senate rejected a proposed c...
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Alleged accomplices charged in 14-year-old boy's deathApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - OREGON -- Authorities say an adult and two teens face murder charges in connection with a break-in during which a houseguest fatally shot a 14-year-old intruder in self-...
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Paul Vallas looking at gubernatorial raceApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Former Chicago Schools CEO Paul Vallas says he is frustrated about opportunities Gov. Rod Blagojevich has missed, and is open to running again for governor. Vallas was i...
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Newspaper carrier finds woman pinned by dead husbandApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS -- Bruce Pitts had a feeling something was wrong when the newspapers began piling up in the roadside tube outside the southern Illinois home of Fred and Blanch...