Articles filed under Illinois
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Economy at issue in MichiganJan 14, 2008 10:00 pm - DETROIT -- Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain traded charges over the economy and abortion Monday, in what has become a bitter personal duel ...
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Toll enforcement fix will have to waitJan 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Despite numerous calls for reform, tollway officials have no immediate plans to alter their violation enforcement system following a Daily Herald report that exposed fla...
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Bo Jackson among investors in new bank in Burr RidgeJan 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Bo Jackson, who gained fame as a two-sport professional athlete, is among a group of investors who plan to establish a new bank in suburban Burr Ridge. Burr Ridge Bank &...
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IHSA approves steroid tests for student-athletes in postseasonJan 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Student-athletes who compete in Illinois High School Association postseason events will be subject to random tests for performance-enhancing drugs starting next fall und...
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Suburbs seeing lots of tree clones as lovely as a treeJan 14, 2008 10:00 pm - The political nuttiness of this election season may leave you pining for a clone of Abe Lincoln. Would you settle for a cloned Lincoln tree? While New York City makes n...
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Report: Nearly 2,000 Illinois sex offenders have MySpace pagesJan 14, 2008 10:00 pm - The Illinois attorney general's office has released a report on the use of the MySpace Web site by registered sex offenders in Illinois. The report's release Monday came...
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Toll enforcement system works in best interests of honest tollway usersJan 14, 2008 10:00 pm - McPartlin is Executive Director of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority The Illinois Tollway exists to connect families and customers to businesses and people ...
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No smokes for prisoners, eitherJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The state's new indoor smoking ban is creating problems for thousands of smokers forced to quit cold turkey and face withdrawal in an unrelenting place: p...
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Obama's appeal is in the defying of racial stereotypesJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - In a thoughtful Atlantic Monthly essay touting Barack Obama last month, political commentator Andrew Sullivan revealed his disappointment with a speech the Illinois sena...
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Downstate man sentenced to 9 years for beating deathJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - MARION, Ill. -- A Marion man who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in last June's beating death of another man should spend nine years in prison. That's the rul...