Articles filed under Illinois
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List of Illinois high schools with high dropout ratesOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - List of Illinois high schools with high dropout rates Johns Hopkins University researchers identified 55 Illinois schools as "dropout factories" because no more than 60...
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Politicians line up early for spot on Illinois ballotOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Hundreds of Illinois politicians and their aides swarmed a state office Monday to grab a good spot on the 2008 primary ballot, a ritual that came earlier ...
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Relatives of missing woman says her husband has cuts ties to familyOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Family members of Lisa Stebic say her estranged husband, who has been named by police as a person of interest in her disappearance six months ago, has cut off all commun...
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More than 1 in 10 high schools in America are 'dropout factories'Oct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- It's a nickname no principal could be proud of: "Dropout Factory," a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make i...
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Hyde to receive Medal of FreedomOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Former Congressman Henry J. Hyde is among eight people to receive the nation's top civilian honor, President Bush announced Monday. Recipients of the Presidential Medal ...
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Early primary gives Illinois a bigger sayOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A three-month political sprint to the earliest primary in Illinois history began Monday as candidates began filing paperwork to get on the Feb. 5 ballot. ...
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Nearly tenth of Ill. high schools are 'dropout factories'Oct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - At Sullivan High School on the Chicago's North Side, 479 students -- the majority of them minority and low-income -- enrolled in the class of 2006. By senior year, just...
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Madigan proposes casino safeguardsOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - You want to act like Atlantic City? Then you need oversight of gambling like New Jersey. That was the message Monday from Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who lai...
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Illinois cop accused of sexually abusing strippersOct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - BELGIUM, Ill. -- On the western edge of town sits a ranch-style building that might be called nondescript if it weren't for the top-to-bottom aqua paint job and the litt...
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Durbin takes on the 'superbug'Oct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has announced legislation to better detect, prevent and treat drug-resistant bacteria such as MRSA. MRSA is a staph bacteria that doesn't re...