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Make sure all kids enroll in 'All Kids'Jan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - Thanks to the All Kids health insurance program, 10-year-old Lisa is looking forward to a happy and healthy new year. When Lisa's dad lost his job and his family's healt...
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GOP leaders see little hope in 2008Jan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Personal animosity among state leaders has become so deep that it threatens lawmakers' ability to approve anything of significance for the foreseeable fut...
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Let parents control public school purseJan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - Correspondence on the series about school finance seems to have missed the key point made in the Daily Herald editorial on Nov. 25: "What can be done to improve a system...
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Revolutionary idea for Cook CountyDec 31, 2007 10:00 pm - Memo to Todd Stroger and the Cook County Board: "The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are ind...
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Chief lives on with Illini fansDec 31, 2007 10:00 pm - URBANA -- Ray Allen Hughes is not going to the Rose Bowl, but his artwork will be there. Hughes, owner of Vision World tattoo parlor in Urbana, inks Chief Illiniwek tatt...
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Chicago's Pritzker family loses matriarchDec 31, 2007 10:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Rhoda Pritzker, whose late husband's family founded the Hyatt hotel chain, has died, her son said. She was 93. Pritzker died at her winter home Dec. 23 in Cas...
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Marathon signup laterDec 31, 2007 10:00 pm - Organizers of the Chicago Marathon have pushed back registration for the 2008 race. Spokeswoman Marianne Caponi said the event reaches capacity sooner each year and the ...
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Briefs: Motorola settles patent disputesDec 31, 2007 10:00 pm - SCHAUMBURG -- Motorola Inc. and Metrologic Instruments Inc. announced Monday they have reached an agreement that settles all outstanding patent infringement disputes bet...
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Happy new laws, smokers and teen driversDec 31, 2007 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- In a year in which state leaders have been lambasted for their inability to do much of significance, smokers and teen drivers may beg to differ. Both are ...
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Cops: Downstate hunter shoots himself, diesDec 30, 2007 10:00 pm - JOHNSTON CITY, Ill. -- Authorities in Williamson County say a southern Illinois man died after accidentally shooting himself while hunting. Coroner Mike Burke says 53-ye...