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Questions arise amid power redistribution at tollway authorityNov 01, 2021 1:00 am - Power shifts at the Illinois tollway are raising "who's on first" questions from at least one state lawmaker after the board recently voted to delegate authority to Chai...
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Pritzker calls gun violence a public health crisis, lays out prevention approachNov 01, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an executive order Monday classifying ongoing gun violence in Illinois as a public health crisis and announced his intent to incl...
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Of the 843 COVID-19 deaths Illinois recorded in October, nearly 55% were downstateNov 01, 2021 1:00 am - In October, state health officials reported 843 COVID-19 deaths in Illinois, an average of 27 per day. That represents a 17.6% drop from September's 1,023 deaths from CO...
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AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDTOct 31, 2021 7:00 am - A post-Trump test for Democrats looms in Virginia election RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - For four years, nothing rallied Democrats like the push to get Donald Trump out of office...
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Rainfall delays crops, but some Illinois farmers on scheduleOct 31, 2021 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - October has had weather comparable to what is seen in all four seasons. Through it all, area farmers were working through the conditions to coll...
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2 fatally shot, several more injured at Chicago-area partyOct 31, 2021 7:00 am - JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Two people were killed and more than a dozen were injured in an overnight shooting at a suburban Chicago Halloween party, authorities said Sunday. A...
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Key events in Wisconsin surrounding Rittenhouse shootingsOct 31, 2021 7:00 am - KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - A timeline of key events before and after Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people during a night of unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year: Aug. 23, 202...
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Retired Indiana carpenter becomes sought-after painterOct 31, 2021 7:00 am - ROSEDALE, Ind. (AP) - There are no stray or space-filling brush strokes in Curt Stanfield's paintings. Each mark has a purpose. That's how Rena Brouwer views Stanfield's...
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People, homes vanish due to 2020 census' new privacy methodOct 31, 2021 7:00 am - The three-bedroom colonial-style house where Jessica Stephenson has lived in Milwaukee for the last six years bustles with activity on any given weekday, filled with the...
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Chicago's city schools see continued enrollment dipOct 31, 2021 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago's public school system has seen another enrollment drop with 10,000 fewer students this academic year since last year for a total of approximately...