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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Butler would have to clear many hurdles before that would happen, chief among them persuading the Bureau of Prisons to restore his town's medium-security prison to its former high-security status. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's second-ranking Democrat, has asked the bureau to study the issue of housing Guantanamo detainees at super maximum-security prisons and of possibly returning the...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
A 28-year-old Illinois woman died and a 39-year-old Wisconsin man was injured in what appeared to be a drunken-driving crash in Kenosha County early Saturday, the Sheriff's Department there reported.
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News-Gazette Editorials Stories (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Tiring quickly of each other, Gov. Pat Quinn and legislators adjourned from a special session called to address state budget woes until mid-July. Neither democracy nor sausage-making is supposed to be a process pleasing to the eye, but even by that low standard last week's budget battle in Springfield was an ugly business.
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The Sixth Ward (Free subscription) | yesterday
A press release posted at The Bench from state-political activist John Bambeneck on making the General Assembly a one house legislature in response to the current gridlock in Illinois. Some might say why does Chicago have 50 Aldermen. Now there may be those who asks why we have to legislative houses that can't get anything done. Should Illinois have a unicameral (one-house) legislature?
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AMERICA~LAND OF THE FREE~ (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
BOYCOTT VANITY FAIR AND HELP KICK TODD STANLEY PURDUM TO THE CURB !!! Joe the plumber has something for your ASS !! Several have written, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of 'narcissistic personality disorder' in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — 'a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and...
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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
A recent nursing home population analysis found that the number of first-time nursing home residents admitted with mental illness has far surpassed the number of those with dementia and Alzheimer’s. The number of nursing home residents admitted with a mental illness rose from 168,721 to 187,478. That is more than 50% more than those admitted dementia only, which considers many mental illnesses....
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Rattler Radio (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The Peoria Chiefs are in Illinois. They are the Midwest League affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. Keep that in mind as you check out this story about the winner of their 5,000,000th fan drawing . Rachael Randolph, a 35-year-old urban planner for the City of Wilmette who resides in Kenosha, Wis., is the 5 millionth Peoria Chiefs fan. Randolph’s winning ducat was picked from nearly 6,600 tickets during...
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Docuticker (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Air Traffic Control: Potential Fatigue Factors Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General On June 29, 2009, we issued our report on fatigue factors that could impact air traffic controllers. We conducted this audit at three critical Chicago air traffic control facilities at the request of Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois. These 3 facilities [...]
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Ideoblog (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
I've been gone for two weeks, but not completely out of touch. I followed with dismay the Tribute's attacks on my friends and colleagues at the University of Illinois. My first impulse was to stay out of this story, lest...
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South Dakota Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus this week, learning about sociogenomics. If you don't know what that is, neither did I until I was invited to participate in this National Science Foundation funded Summer Institute. Now I...
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Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
A huge crowd--maybe 10,000 people--attended tonight's Independence Day fireworks in Morton Grove, Illinois. An enormous turnout, just 22,000 live in the Chicago suburb. The Marathon Pundit family had a good view of the show, and these patriots helped a lot with this picture. Happy Fourth of July! Technorati tags: july 4 photography photos Illinois Chicago Morton Grove
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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
A jury as unanimously awarded a plaintiff nearly $1.34 million for the reckless nursing home abuse and neglect that the suffered in the hands of her nursing home provided. The jury awarded $88,000 for past medical bills, $500,000 in general damages and $750,000 in punitive damages. The victim suffered from Alzheimer’s and required intense management due to her frequency of falling . However,...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
WADSWORTH, Ill., July 4 (UPI) -- A head-on collision on a Chicago-area tollway claimed the lives of a 24-year-old Wisconsin woman and her toddler son, authorities say. Illinois State Police say Nicole Polk, of Algoma, Wis., and her 16-month-old son, Tevin Temple, were declared dead on the Tri-State Tollway in Lake County, Ill., in what may be an alcohol-related crash, the Chicago Tribune reported....
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feminist blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
To mark the July 4 holiday, I’m reading a book by Francesca Morgan (History, Northeastern Illinois University). In Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (UNC Press 2005), Morgan details the activities of these women’s volunteer organizations founded after the Civil War: the Woman’s Relief Corps, the Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the [...]
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salegold | 07/01/2009
Airline Honors the State of Illinois and City of Chicago with Specialty Aircraft.
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www.carbonfreeenergy | 06/13/2009
Officials from Highland Community College (HCC) and EcoEnergy officially broke ground in early October for a facility to house the HCC Wind Turbine Technology Program, the first associates’ degree program of its kind offered in the state of Illinois. The event also included the donation of the facility’s first dedicated tool from Greenlee-Textron, the Rockford, Ill.-based manufacturer of tools for...
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