Articles filed under Illinois
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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...
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6-year-old dolphin dies at Brookfield ZooJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Micco, pronounced MEE'-coh, a six-year-old Atlantic bottlenose dolphin at Brookfield Zoo, has died. Zoo officials say they believe a respiratory infection killed the you...
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Democrats trade jabs over raceJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Sunday that Barack Obama's campaign had injected racial tension into the presidential contest, saying he had distor...
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Obama alienated women with his curt remark to ClintonJan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Rick Lazio must have known what was coming. As Hillary Clinton's Senate opponent in 2000, he alarmingly strode across the stage during a debate and demanded that she sig...
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New Year. Same old political bickering?Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- It was just a year ago that Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sworn in for a second term, telling a crowd of friends and supporters that the time was ripe for acti...
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Voters looking in different directions in presidential raceJan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Like the Roman god Janus, from which this godforsaken month takes its name, the two parties' voters in two states have looked in different directions. These states perha...
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Vandals deface tombstonesJan 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Cook County authorities say nearly 60 tombstones were defaced with swastikas and anti-Semitic phrases in a primarily Jewish cemetery in suburban Chicago. Sheriff Tom Dar...