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Marker coming for Black teen whose 1919 death roiled ChicagoJun 05, 2021 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Black teenager whose death along a segregated Chicago beach sparked a weeklong race riot in 1919 that left dozens of people dead is finally getting a gr...
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Educator retires after 50 years at southwest Illinois schoolJun 05, 2021 7:00 am - COLUMBIA, Ill. (AP) - Michael Kish spent five years at two Catholic seminaries before deciding that the priesthood wasn't his true calling. Then he earned a history degr...
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Indiana cement plant faces $730K in fines for air pollutionJun 05, 2021 7:00 am - GREENCASTLE, Ind. (AP) - A central Indiana cement plant is facing more than $700,000 in fines under a settlement stemming from alleged Clean Air Act violations for air p...
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Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Evers launches bid for second termJun 05, 2021 7:00 am - MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers made it official Saturday, announcing his bid for a second term in the battleground state where he stands as a Democratic ...
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Florida surgeon's estate settles suit over plane crash deathJun 05, 2021 7:00 am - KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) - The estate of a Florida plastic surgeon who died in 2019 when his small plane crashed in a central Indiana farm field shortly after takeoff has settl...
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Families await word on fates of 3 people, missing for yearsJun 05, 2021 7:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - No one has seen Ka'Rena McClerkin since she walked into a home in Kokomo four years ago. Frank 'œJoey'ť Giza III was supposed to leave Bloomington f...
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Skunk raids endangered shorebirds' Chicago beachfront nestJun 05, 2021 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Two endangered shorebirds that birding enthusiasts have tracked for years along a Chicago beachfront have lost their latest clutch of eggs to a skunk atta...
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State: 48% of people 12 and older now fully vaccinatedJun 05, 2021 1:00 am - Roughly 48% of Illinois' population 12 years and older has been fully vaccinated and nearly 60% has received at least one dose, according to new data released by the Ill...
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Minnesota man arrested in 49-year-old Chicago-area slayingJun 04, 2021 7:00 am - NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A 76-year-old Minnesota man has been arrested in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old suburban Chicago girl nearly half a century ago, authorities...
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Chicago's Lake Shore Drive the site of another shootingJun 04, 2021 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A 15-year-old girl was critically injured when she was shot on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive near Grant Park late Thursday night - at least the third shootin...