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5 killed in Illinois shooting; suspect dies after police chase
Five members of a family were killed in a home in Manchester, Ill., and the suspected gunman died after a police chase, officials said Wednesday. The family, including a grandmother, a young couple and two small children, were found dead in the Scott...
Tags: Shootings, Housing and Urban Planning, Politics, Bradley, Interior Policy
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Rosenthal: Perry tries to rustle Illinois business
Selling the grass as greener in his dusty, drought-plagued state, Texas Gov. Rick Perry came to Chicago this week to paint his state as a commercial paradise and Illinois into a corner. Perry is out to poach Illinois businesses and jobs. He says it's...
Tags: Scott Walker, Elections, Sales, Pat Quinn, Susana Martinez
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Illinois Senate looking at 2-tier concealed carry system
— People who want to carry a concealed weapon in Chicago and elsewhere in Cook County would get an extra layer of scrutiny under legislation being drafted in the Illinois Senate, according to authors of the proposal. The legislation is aimed at...
Tags: Tim Bivins, Gun Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Firearms, Brandon W. Phelps
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Coal tar industry fights bans on sealants
When officials in suburban Des Plaines read about the hazards of spreading cancer-causing coal tar on playgrounds, parking lots and driveways, they moved to join other communities across the nation that have banned pavement sealants made with the...
Tags: Science and Technology, Public Officials, Baylor University , Lobbying, Des Plaines
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Snowstorm heads out -- and winter with it?
The snowstorm that buried central and southern Illinois only skirted Chicago as it headed east -- and with it maybe the last of an unusual winter that seemed would never end. The storm dropped 17 inches of snow in Springfield, breaking the old record...
Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Weather Reports, Chicago Weather, New York City, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
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Late season storm could leave foot of snow in central Illinois
Tribune reporterJust when we thought we were done with snow, forecasters say we can expect to see more of it Sunday and early Monday with central Illinois seeing as much as a foot. We can thank a storm system that is moving along the southern high Plains states and...Tags: National Weather Service, Snow Storms
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Sequestration impact: FAA closing 149 air traffic control towers
CHICAGO (AP) — Under orders to trim hundreds of millions of dollars from its budget, the Federal Aviation Administration released a final list Friday of 149 air traffic control facilities that it will close at small airports around the country...Tags: Science and Technology, Employees, Electronics, Career and Workplace, Midway
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Des Plaines shortens lobbyist contracts but still approves them
Des Plaines officials agreed to extend contracts for two of the three lobbying firms hired to represent the city's interests in Springfield. But officials chose to shorten the contract extensions—reducing the length from one year to six months&...Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Lobbying, Des Plaines, Consultancy Service, Politics
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Gay marriage in Illinois? Not this year, evidently...
Change of SubjectRay Long reports from Springfield: Speaker Madigan says gay marriage bill 12 votes shy in the Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan today said a gay marriage bill is "12 votes short of passage" in the Illinois House, a signal that...... -
9 hopefuls on ballot in District 15 race
With nine candidates vying to fill four open seats on the Community Consolidated School District 15 Board of Education, voters have a wide choice in the April 9 election. But one thing the candidates seem to agree on is that money will continue to be...
Tags: Elections, Referenda, Hoffman Estates, Finance, Teaching and Learning
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Emily Wood
Emily is an Emmy award-winning journalist who grew up in the Ozarks in the small town of Dixon, Mo. She has worked at TV stations all over the country and is thrilled to be back home in Missouri.
Emily caught the news bug at a young age. When she...Tags: Journalism, Autism, PBS (tv network), Television Industry
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Quinn blames lawmakers for inaction on pension reform
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn chastised lawmakers for failing to pass cost-cutting changes to the government worker retirement system, then dangled the possibility that he'd drop his long-running opposition to a major gambling expansion to get a...Tags: Democratic Party, Religion and Belief, Pat Quinn, Parties and Movements, Louis I Lang
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