Articles filed under Region
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Nearly tenth of Ill. high schools are 'dropout factories'Oct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - At Sullivan High School on the Chicago's North Side, 479 students -- the majority of them minority and low-income -- enrolled in the class of 2006. By senior year, just...
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Madigan proposes casino safeguardsOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - You want to act like Atlantic City? Then you need oversight of gambling like New Jersey. That was the message Monday from Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who lai...
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Illinois cop accused of sexually abusing strippersOct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - BELGIUM, Ill. -- On the western edge of town sits a ranch-style building that might be called nondescript if it weren't for the top-to-bottom aqua paint job and the litt...
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Durbin takes on the 'superbug'Oct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has announced legislation to better detect, prevent and treat drug-resistant bacteria such as MRSA. MRSA is a staph bacteria that doesn't re...
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Madigan proposes overhaul of state gambling boardOct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan unveiled a proposal today for a completely new state gambling regulation board, possibly signaling willingness to deal on adding m...
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U. of I. allows Chief images in homecoming paradeOct 28, 2007 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Chief Illiniwek may be gone, but images depicting the controversial University of Illinois mascot will stick around -- at least during homecoming. A d...
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Five dead in fiery crash on Chicago expresswayOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Illinois State Police say a man who was driving the wrong way on an expressway west of downtown Chicago early Sunday caused a fiery crash that killed five people, includ...
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Variations in what the 'values voters' put their value inOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - In retrospect, it was probably not the best way to reassure the faithful. When James Dobson, child psychologist turned political kingmaker, rose to speak at the Values V...
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Driver in 80s strikes, kills mother, 2 childrenOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Authorities say a driver in his 80s struck and killed a mother and her two small children as they crossed a Chicago street. Police spokeswoman JoAnn Taylor says the acci...
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O'Hare expects better X-rays, more dogsOct 26, 2007 11:00 pm - Despite reigning as one of the country's busiest airports, O'Hare International has often lagged in landing new high-tech screening gear to protect against terrorists. B...