Articles filed under Illinois
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Efforts to save Delta Queen stepped upApr 07, 2008 11:00 pm - HANNIBAL, Mo. -- Ceremonies are planned in several Mississippi River cities, including St. Louis and Alton, in case this year's voyages of the iconic Delta Queen are her...
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Generation gap makes for interesting debate in Clinton-Obama raceApr 07, 2008 11:00 pm - It seems the presidential primary season has outlived its welcome, rather like winter in northern New England where the snowdrifts have delayed our annual appointment wi...
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Governor signs bill to bypass Electoral CollegeApr 07, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois is officially ready to bypass the Electoral College in choosing the country's president, but dozens more states would have to join the effort b...
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Lt. Gov. Quinn reaffirms support for recall amendmentApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Lieutenant Governor Patrick Quinn is urging Illinois residents to push for a November vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow for the recall of elected offic...
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Cole Hall's fate still undecidedApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Yellow police tape and wooden barricades no longer block the entrance to Northern Illinois University's Cole Hall, but students still avoid the brick building and its pa...
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Peterson's son faces disciplinary actionApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Oak Brook police officials say one of Drew Peterson's sons faces disciplinary action for showing up at a grand jury appearance driving his police car and wearing his uni...
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Storied Lincoln a frequent loser, tooApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Much has been written about the fact that Jim Oberweis has failed at all attempts to win elective office. But, consider the following: In 1832, he lost his job, being de...
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Officials: Body found is that of missing teenApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - The Cook County Medical Examiner's office says a body found in a creek in the southern Chicago suburb of Sauk Village is that of a 15-year-old girl who had been missing ...
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Bailouts offer insult to bad fiscal injuryApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Bailouts offer insult to bad fiscal injury Democrats on Capitol Hill want $400 billion to back problem loans, said a March 30 story. Greed by some in the mortgage indust...
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R. Eugene Pincham dead at 82Apr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - R. Eugene Pincham, a longtime civil rights attorney who helped win a multimillion-dollar settlement after two young boys were falsely accused of killing an 11-year-old g...