Articles filed under Illinois
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Defense: Chinese scholar's killer offered to locate bodyJun 26, 2019 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Lawyers for a former University of Illinois doctoral student who faces a possible death sentence for kidnapping and killing a visiting scholar from China ...
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Illinois offers $1.5 million in search for resort operatorJun 26, 2019 7:00 am - WHITTINGTON, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is continuing its efforts to find vendors interested in reopening facilities at the Fitzgerrell Sta...
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Where marijuana can and can't be used once law goes into effectJun 26, 2019 5:00 am - While marijuana consumption and possession will become legal for Illinois residents age 21 and older starting Jan. 1, consumption in public places will still be prohibit...
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State financial report is six months lateJun 26, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois officials are six months late publishing an annual document presenting the state's fiscal health in detail, and they are unsure when it will be re...
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Why some new state laws already are in effect but others aren'tJun 26, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Starting Monday, July 1, it will officially become illegal in Illinois for anyone to sell or provide tobacco cigarettes or other tobacco products to people...
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Mattoon teacher who subdued shooter named Carnegie heroJun 25, 2019 7:00 am - MATTOON, Ill. (AP) - A central Illinois teacher has been named a Carnegie hero after subduing a teen who opened fire at Mattoon High School in September 2017. The Carneg...
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Illinois home health care workers to get back pay this weekJun 25, 2019 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - More than 49,000 employees of the Illinois Department of Human Services who provide home health care will get long-overdue backpay this week. Il...
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Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in IllinoisJun 25, 2019 7:00 am - June 24, 2019 Chicago Sun-Times Imagine an America in which every child starts off on the right foot Babies, as it turns out, learn more, and earlier, than most of us kn...
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Pritzker signs law legalizing recreational marijuana in IllinoisJun 25, 2019 1:00 am - Recreational marijuana use and possession will be legal in Illinois beginning Jan. 1 after Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday signed a bill that includes a process...
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Civil War reenactment cancelled again after reinstatementJun 24, 2019 7:00 am - WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - Unspecified security concerns have forced the cancellation of this year's Civil War reenactment at a northeastern Illinois forest preserve. Civil W...