Illinois News
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Nation's 1st primary sets stage for Illinois showdown
10:03 AM on 02/02/2010
CHICAGO (AP) - The governor's office isn't the only GOP target. They also hope Democratic disarray will let them capture the Senate seat formerly held by President Obama...
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Blagojevich apologizes for 'stupid' blacker than Obama comment
8:18 AM on 01/12/2010
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The disgraced former Illinois governor said he probably won't try to make amends directly to the president...
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Blagojevich says he's 'blacker than Barack Obama'
6:43 AM on 01/11/2010
CHICAGO (AP) -- Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he's "blacker than Barack Obama" and tells Esquire magazine that he was a real person in a political arena...
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Senator Roland Burris is scolded for 'misleading' statements
12:03 PM on 11/20/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. "Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished a Democratic senator for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements...
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Burr Oak Cemetery reopens four months after scandal
10:54 AM on 11/20/2009
ALSIP, Illinois (AP) - A historic black cemetery, shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots, is open again...
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Mother accused of running over teenager with car
12:04 PM on 11/13/2009
VIDEO - A judge set bond at $1 million for an Illinois woman accused of using her car to run down and kill a teenager who had allegedly gotten into a fight with the woman's son...
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In Chicago, some blame turf wars for violence
11:17 AM on 10/19/2009
VIDEO - As suspects in the beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert appear in court Monday, experts continue to question the cause for violence...
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Once shunned, Senator Burris is now key player in health care debate
11:00 AM on 10/19/2009
A Democratic Senator, shunned by some members of his own party who were reluctant to even seat him, may now be a key player in the health care debate...
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NAACP holds rally in Rockford, calls for new investigation in shooting
7:17 AM on 10/04/2009
NAACP president and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous returned to Rockford on Saturday for his second rally in the city about 90 miles northwest of Chicago...
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NAACP president calls for further investigation on Rockford shooting
5:03 PM on 10/02/2009
ROCKFORD, IIl. (AP) -- The Aug. 24 death of Mark Anthony Barmore has created racial tension in this northern Illinois community of nearly 160,000 people...
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Rockford killing highlights national dilemma with police conduct
10:02 AM on 10/01/2009
OPINION - The United States remains the only country in the Western world without national standards for the use of police force, or with ongoing federal training for officers...
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Violent America makes for violent youth
7:36 AM on 09/30/2009
OPINION - We should abhor the actions of the young men who killed 16-year-old Chicago student Derrion Albert, but we should not be so quick to label it just another "black-on-black" inner city crime...
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Caught on tape: Kid beaten on school bus
5:16 PM on 09/15/2009
VIDEO - The 17-year-old victim was white and his 14 and 15-year-old assailants were black. Police released a video of the beating, which shows the victim being punched repeatedly...
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City workers suspended for hanging nooses
12:15 PM on 09/15/2009
Three city employees in Springfield have been suspended for 60 days without pay for separate incidents in which nooses were hung at their workplaces.
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Illinois man works 50 years without missing a day
8:15 AM on 08/27/2009
VIDEO - He's made it through snowstorms, sickness, and road construction, and he's never missed a day...
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Cook County, IL may decriminalize small weed possessions
11:56 AM on 07/23/2009
If you're busted carrying a small amount of marijuana in portions of Cook County, Illinois patrolled by the sheriff's police, you may get off with a ticket...
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Investigation digs deeper at historic Chicago cemetery
10:00 AM on 07/22/2009
The investigation of the Burr Oak Cemetery in Cook County, Illinois outside Chicago is continuing and the FBI says they're turning up even more unsettling evidence...
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Black men mistaken for bank robbers (video)
6:13 PM on 06/09/2009
Skokie, IL - During a dramatic moment at a suburban bank, police respond to suspicious activity and hold two men at gunpoint. But was it all a case of mistaken identity? In today's world no one takes anything for granted. When two men seemed to act suspicious to bank tellers...
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Burris reacts to transcripts of his conversation with Blago's brother (video)
5:08 PM on 05/27/2009
CHICAGO - U.S. Senator Roland Burris of Illinois is reacting today to phone transcripts that, some say, implicate him in a "pay-to-play" scheme to get the senate seat. Burris took time before his departure for a two-day tour of central Illinois to talk to reporters outside his Chicago home. He...
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