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2 more mass vaccination sites to open in southern IllinoisFeb 18, 2021 6:00 am - BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - More mass COVID-19 vaccination sites are slated to open this week in southern Illinois, news that comes as nearly 2 millions doses have been admi...
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Correction: Illinois-State Budget storyFeb 18, 2021 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - In a Feb. 17 story about Gov. J.B. Pritzker's budget proposal, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the proposal relied for revenue on...
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Fate of Honest Abe statues under review in Chicago, honestlyFeb 18, 2021 6:00 am - A city commission is determining the fate of monuments to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington and other historical figures in Chicago as part of a 'œracial healing and...
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Bankers say economy is improving in rural parts of 10 statesFeb 18, 2021 6:00 am - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The economy is slowly improving in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states, but employment remains below the level it was at before the coronaviru...
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Records: DNA links man to killings of Indiana woman, girl, 4Feb 18, 2021 6:00 am - CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) - A Tennessee man charged in the July 1992 killings of an Indiana woman and her 4-year-old daughter was linked to the deaths by a new analysis of ...
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Man killed in Chicago awning collapse identifiedFeb 18, 2021 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A man who was killed when an awning at an off-track betting site in Chicago collapsed under the weight of snow has been identified. The Cook County Medic...
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Report slams Chicago response to unrest after Floyd's deathFeb 18, 2021 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Police Department was woefully unprepared for the violence that erupted in the city last year after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis police...
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COVID-19 inoculations rise, but so do tensions over dose distributionFeb 18, 2021 12:00 am - As Illinois nears 2 million COVID-19 vaccines administered despite weather-related delays, tensions rose among some suburban leaders over the scant supply of doses. A to...
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Ex-Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan now says he's leaving House seat immediatelyFeb 18, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Michael Madigan, the Chicago Democrat who set much of Illinois' political agenda as House speaker for four decades before his ouster last month, announced ...
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'Outflanked, underequipped and unprepared': Report blisters Chicago police response to riotsFeb 18, 2021 12:00 am - After the first wave of protests and vandalism that paralyzed downtown Chicago in late May, a top mayoral aide and the police superintendent congratulated each other for...