Articles filed under Illinois
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Judge: Hastert victim broke terms of $3.5M hush-money dealSep 11, 2019 1:00 am - A former student who Dennis Hastert sexually abused decades ago breached an unwritten $3.5 million hush-money agreement with the former U.S. House speaker by telling fam...
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Anne Burke 'humbled and honored' to become chief justice of Illinois Supreme CourtSep 11, 2019 1:00 am - Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke will become the next chief justice of the state's highest court. Burke, the wife of indicted Chicago Alderman Ed Burke, has ser...
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No fare hikes as Metra relishes capital infusionSep 11, 2019 1:00 am - After years of gloomy budget forecasts, Metra riders Wednesday received a reprieve from fare hikes in 2020. The railroad has an estimated $1.45 billion in new money comi...
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Lisa Madigan joins Kirkland & Ellis law firmSep 11, 2019 1:00 am - Former Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who has been relatively out of the spotlight after announcing she wouldn't seek reelection two years ago, has joined Kirkl...
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Former nursing home chaplain gets 26 years on sex chargesSep 10, 2019 7:00 am - QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - The former chaplain for a western Illinois nursing home has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for sex abuse charges involving both a child and eld...
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Police: Man who killed himself in Nebraska killed Iowa clerkSep 10, 2019 7:00 am - BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) - Police in eastern Iowa say they've determined that an Illinois man who shot and killed himself as he fled troopers in western Nebraska last month...
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Some lawmakers wary of plan to move foster children into managed health careSep 10, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois is about to overhaul the way it provides health care to an estimated 74,000 of the state's most vulnerable children and young adults, and the pros...
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No one hurt in downstate derailmentSep 10, 2019 1:00 am - DUPO, Ill. - A freight train believed to be bearing a flammable liquid used in solvents derailed in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis Tuesday, causing a fire that sent thi...
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Illinois Secure Choice program takes aim at 'retirement crisis'Sep 10, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - More than 24,000 private-sector workers in Illinois have collectively stashed away more than $5 million in retirement savings since January as part of a ne...
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Ransomware locks Rockford Public Schools' phones, internetSep 09, 2019 7:00 am - ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - Public schools in Rockford, Illinois are operating without internet, telephone or computer systems that track student attendance because of a ranso...