Articles filed under Illinois
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ComEd to raise electric rates by more than 2 percent in JuneMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - ComEd says it will raise electric rates an average of 2.5 percent this summer. The company says the price increase that begins in June is necessary because of rising ene...
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Time running out to enact law regulating plastic surgeryMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Legislation designed to place more stringent medical restrictions on the cosmetic surgery profession in the wake of hip-hop star Kanye West's mother's dea...
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Concealed gun bill stuck in a Capitol holdupMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- On a day when hundreds of Illinois gun owners flooded the state capital to oppose gun-control measures, an attempt to allow conceal-to-carry stalled in co...
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2 bars, 5 patrons cited under new Illinois smoking law in Will CountyMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - JOLIET -- Joliet police and the Will County Health Department have conducted unannounced checks on the Smoke-Free Illinois Act, citing two Joliet bars and five bar patro...
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Reputed mob boss' brother sentencedMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The brother of a reputed mob boss has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for paying a witness $4,000 a month to keep silent about unsolved underworld murd...
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Obama's right to pressure Clinton to release documentsMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The campaign manager for Sen. Barack Obama has a point. David Plouffe wants Hillary Clinton to release her income tax returns for the last several years and couple that ...
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Rezko letters hint at 'pressure' by lawmaker over hospital expansionMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The Illinois public got its first look Tuesday at a series of letters state administrators wrote under pressure from state Rep. Jack Franks, who urged them to back the p...
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Museum needs money to stay openMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - RANTOUL -- Chanute Air Museum has called off its summer air show because it can't afford it and says it needs more money to stay open. Museum director Hal Loebach says t...
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Gun activists descend on capitol to make positions knownMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Gun activists have made known to the Illinois General Assembly which gun bills they favor and which ones they oppose. Thousands of activists showed up at ...
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Lincoln lookalikes to flood Mississippi River city in AprilMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - ALTON -- Honest, Abe, Alton soon will be a land of Lincoln lookalikes. Dozens of impersonators of the 16th president plan to converge on the Mississippi River city next ...