Articles filed under Illinois
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Illinois toddler killed by dog during July 4 partyJul 06, 2020 7:00 am - JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois toddler was attacked and killed by at least one pit bull while in a playpen during a holiday party, police said Monday. The 17-month-old ...
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Payroll Protection Program recipients include thousands in IllinoisJul 06, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — The government on Monday identified roughly 650,000 mostly small businesses and nonprofits that received taxpayer money from a federal program that probably...
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Deputy majority leader in state House retiresJul 06, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - State Rep. Arthur Turner, a Chicago Democrat, has retired from the Illinois House. Turner, a deputy majority leader in the House, had served in the 9th Dis...
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Millikin's new president at home for career's final chaptersJul 05, 2020 7:00 am - DECATUR, Ill. (AP) - Millikin University's new president, James Reynolds, did not grow up planning a career in academia. His original career plans was to be a scientific...
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13 Illinois 'Bomb Squad' gang members sentenced to prisonJul 05, 2020 7:00 am - PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Thirteen members of a Peoria street gang known as the 'œBomb Squad'ť have been sentenced to prison terms for a racketeering conspiracy that included ...
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State reports six additional COVID-19 deaths, smallest daily total since MarchJul 05, 2020 1:00 am - State health authorities reported 639 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, along with six more deaths from the virus. That brings raises the state's total t...
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Founder of Edwardsville at the center of statue debateJul 04, 2020 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The figure at the center of a statue debate in the Metro East city of Edwardsville has a final resting place at Springfield's Oak Ridge Cemetery...
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Man charged with murder of Southern Illinois toddlerJul 04, 2020 7:00 am - CARLINVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 23-month-old girl who died after her head was apparently slammed against a wal...
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U of Illinois researchers to study animals with MRI scannerJul 04, 2020 7:00 am - URBANA, Ill. (AP) - Researchers at the University of Illinois will be able to closely study mice, rats, pigs and songbirds with the arrival of the campus' first MRI scan...
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Illinois regulators warn casinos to take virus precautionsJul 04, 2020 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Casinos that fail to follow guidelines aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus could be disciplined, including loss of their license, Il...