Articles filed under Region
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Taking a heavy tollJan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Hunkered in her idling SUV outside the tollway's headquarters, Leslie Boudreau frantically sifts through papers that say she owes $4,619 for blowing $179.50 in tolls ove...
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Who's in 1st? They all areJan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - The lessons of Iowa and strategy for New Hampshire and beyond? With New Hampshire's primary only two days away and the 22 primaries of Feb. 5 coming up fast, Illinois ba...
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French authorities to study evidence in killing of Chicago doctorJan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - French prosecutors will come to Chicago this month to study evidence in the case of a dual-citizen man accused of killing a Chicago dermatologist in 2006. An arrest warr...
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Man indicted in slaying of kidnapped womanJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - The former boyfriend of a slain pharmaceutical representative was indicted Friday. Cook County state's attorney spokesman Andy Conklin says Reginald Potts was indicted o...
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3 charged in 2-year-old boy's deathJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - ALTON -- Madison County prosecutors have charged the parents of a two-year-old Alton boy and another woman with first-degree murder in the child's death. Authorities say...
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School aid again falls victim to politicsJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Promised millions of dollars in extra state funding months ago, school districts across Illinois learned Friday they'll be waiting even longer. Gov. Rod B...
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War divides Republican Senate hopefulsJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- None of the three candidates vying for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination want to set a specific timetable for getting troops out of Iraq, but they dif...
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Sun-Times to lay off reporters, editorsJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Sun-Times Media Group Inc. told the Chicago Sun-Times staff Friday it plans to eliminate as many as 35 jobs in the newsroom as part of companywide cutbacks. W...
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Obama's Iowa victory speech brings double takesJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- If you heard Barack Obama's Iowa victory speech, you might conclude Illinois has universal health care. "I'll be a president who finally makes health care...
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Kucinich challenges decision to exclude three from debatesJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich filed a complaint with the FCC on Friday after ABC News excluded him, fellow Democrat Mike Gravel and Repub...