Articles filed under Illinois
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Rock Island courthouse defenders don't want it demolishedJul 09, 2018 7:00 am - ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) - With a decision just days away, supporters of a 123-year-old stone courthouse are urging an Illinois county to keep away the wrecking ball. It c...
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EXCHANGE: Retired principal has painted hundreds of mapsJul 08, 2018 7:00 am - BENTON, Ill. (AP) - Gene Alexander, known to most as "Mr. A," may be busier today than he was before retiring in 1990 from his job as principal of Logan Elementary Schoo...
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EXCHANGE: SIU adding doctors to treat opioid dependencyJul 08, 2018 7:00 am - QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - When Dr. Michael Connolly moved from Wisconsin to Quincy in January 2017 to teach at Southern Illinois University's Center for Family Medicine, he wa...
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Search continues for undiscovered Great Lakes shipwrecksJul 08, 2018 7:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Every spring, it starts again: The great treasure hunt. Not for actual treasure, as the ships that met their fates on the Great Lakes weren't known to car...
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Medicaid backlog to shutter central Illinois nursing homeJul 07, 2018 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A state backlog in determining Medicaid eligibility for nursing home residents is forcing a central Illinois facility's closure. ...
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EXCHANGE: Generosity kicks off kidney 'transplant chain'Jul 07, 2018 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Before Deborah Kunath received a fateful call from Memorial Medical Center last year, the 61-year-old Jacksonville resident worried she would di...
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EXCHANGE: Millions of books later, librarian to retireJul 07, 2018 7:00 am - DECATUR, Ill. (AP) - City librarian Rick Meyer is a self-described "numbers guy," so when he came to the staff's retirement gathering for children's librarian Katie Gros...
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Conflict-of-interest concerns may slow fight against diseaseJul 07, 2018 7:00 am - ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Conflict-of-interest allegations against a Michigan company may slow a nationwide response to Legionnaires' disease outbreaks. Th...
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West Nile virus found in mosquitoes in Lake CountyJul 07, 2018 7:00 am - WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - Tests on mosquitoes have revealed for the first time this year the presence of the West Nile virus in Lake County in Northern Illinois. The county'...
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How Illinois retirement program works (and is it a good idea?)Jul 07, 2018 1:00 am - About 1.2 million Illinois residents will have money automatically deducted from their paychecks for a retirement savings plan through a new state program being phased i...