Articles filed under Illinois
-
Bridge consruction sticker shockAug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- If Illinois set out to fix every bridge and road in need of repair, the price tag would reach into the tens of billions of dollars, likely requiring a sub...
-
Cost of lawmakers staying in Springfield: $808,000 and we're countingAug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - $808,000 and we're counting This is the estimated cost of keeping lawmakers in Springfield so far. Gov. Rod Blagojevich has ordered them to stay in overtime until they c...
-
Illinois DigestAug 03, 2007 11:00 pm - NIU tracking pest: Farmers concerned about pests invading their corn crop have a new way to find out if bugs are headed their way. Northern Illinois University has launc...
-
Stop alcohol ads aimed at minorsAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Gov. Rod Blagojevich will soon have an opportunity to further combat underage drinking when the General Assembly sends him unanimously approved legislation that would cr...
-
Consistency lifts Score over WMVPAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - With WMVP 1000-AM still trying to break in a new local morning-midday show, and about to be forced to change hosts in midday afternoons with the departure of Dan Patrick...
-
Illinois' goals for grad rates not adequateAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Illinois and many other states aren't setting high enough goals for high school graduation rates, according to a new report. The Education Trust, a Washington...
-
How Blagojevich ended up on a political desert islandAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - The bottom line is that while health care for all topped his agenda, it topped virtually no one else's. Although you can never be certain while the General Assembly is s...
-
Mastodon 411Aug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - • They're distantly related to modern elephants. • Likely traveled in family herds, led by the females. •Habitats were forests and woodlands in North America. •T...
-
Spanning the suburbsAug 02, 2007 11:00 pm - According to a Federal Highway Authority database, updated in February, there are 29,903 bridges in Illinois. Cook and the collar counties are home to 4,692 bridges. In ...
-
Illinois congressman is a model of civility in serving the publicAug 01, 2007 11:00 pm - LaHood is a throwback to an earlier, less strident kind of Republicanism. It is rare that a retirement announcement by a single back-bench member of the minority party i...