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Tolono board backs grain fuel facility
Tweet Widget TOLONO -- Village officials are recommending to the county zoning board of appeals that Premier Cooperative be allowed to build a distribution depot and new storage facilities for grain and fuel. Premier CEO Roger Miller this week told the village board that the cooperative is planning to expand its grain and fuel businesses. Miller said the company would like to put an ...
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Updated GOP official apologizes for anti-Harold rant
A Republican Party official from a rural county in the 13th Congressional District apologized Wednesday for racist remarks he wrote about GOP congressional candidate Erika Harold of Urbana. "The words in the commentary I wrote were completely wrong," said Jim Allen, the Republican Party chairman in Montgomery County. "I apologize to Erika Harold, her staff and her ...
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Township to distribute fans
Tweet Widget CHAMPAIGN -- The City of Champaign Township will be giving away free box fans to qualified recipients as temperatures are expected to hit 90 degrees on Saturday and Sunday. Fans will be available beginning Friday until supplies run out, according to a press release. Recipients must be at least 60 years old, have an income of less than $8,000 and be a resident of City of Champaign ...
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Catlin board to consider unusual building request
Tweet Widget CATLIN -- Village board members voted this week to delay making a decision on a business owner's request to set a car atop his building. John Van Ham submitted a building permit application to the Catlin Village Board regarding his business, Hillo Used Cars. Van Ham wants to take a car, remove its engine, gas tank and seats, and then set the shell of the car on the roof of his ...
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Wanted Committee compromise on Ill. pensions
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois lawmakers didn't solve the state's pension crisis Wednesday but saved themselves from embarrassment over an ill-fated special session by taking steps toward a House-Senate compromise through a bipartisan ...
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APNewsBreak Union back wages to be paid
An email from the executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees obtained by the AP Wednesday says employees in six government agencies will see wages increase at least 7.25 percent with the new fiscal ...
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9 Students Hospitalized After Being Pepper Sprayed At School
CHICAGO (STMW) — Nine students at a Near North Side bilingual public elementary school were hospitalized Wednesday afternoon after a student accidentally discharged pepper spray. The student was apparently playing with a can of pepper spray when it went off about 3:20 p.m. at the Ruben Salazar Bilingual Center in the 100 block of West Wendell Street, authorities ...
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Group Petitions Gary Mayor To Close Down Animal Shelter
GARY, Ind. (CBS) — A group of animal lovers in Indiana are petitioning the Gary mayor to close down the local animal shelter. Charlene Swift of the Indiana Save a Dog Rescue started a petition on Change.org because she thinks the Gary animal control unit has had problems for ...
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Students Hospitalized in Pepper Spray Incident
Six students, from Ruben Salazar Bilingual Center, at 160 W. Wendell St., were taken to Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. One was in fair condition. Five others were in good condition. Three other students were taken in good condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, fire officials ...
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Convicted Sex Trafficker Charged Again
Officials say Schiller Park man and his associates recruited young homeless women and forced them to perform sex acts for profit. Charlie Wojciechowski ...
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Body pulled from Lake Michigan is Chicago university student
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Authorities have identified a body pulled from Lake Michigan on Wednesday morning as a University of Chicago student who disappeared a week ago, possibly to watch a ...
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Photos Quenneville’s ‘Stache Throughout The Years
Over the better part of four decades (we assume), Quenneville’s ‘stache has been quietly – but prominently – resting above his upper lip. In 2010, Quenneville’swife Elizabeth had this to stay about her husband’s famous facial hair: ';Thank God I didn’t know him before the mustache,'; she told the Tribune. ';I’ve seen pictures of ...
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Albany Park Residents Fed Up With Potholes Not Getting Fixed
CHICAGO (CBS) — Albany Park residents say that have been trying for months to get some potholes fixed. The problem got CBS 2's attention when a viewer wrote in saying: ';myself and other neighbors have been reporting potholes, cave-ins and impassable alleys and streets for over three years.'; CBS 2′s Derrick Blakley went Albany Park to check it out. Sometime, you ...
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Two U.S. Navy landing craft up for auction each seats 200 and a tank
Two Vietnam-era vessels docked at the Naval Station Great Lakes north of Chicago, landing craft that can hold 200 people each, are for sale, the U.S. Navy said. An auction of the two LCM-8s, capable of plowing through surf onto a beach, opening a ramp and unleashing an amphibious assault, began Tuesday and ends Thursday afternoon on the govliquidation.com website, the Chicago Tribune reported ...
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Chris Bosh calls out fans who left Game 6 early JUN 19
Heat fans for leaving the game early when it appeared Miami had lost in regulation. "For all those guys who left, don't come back for Game 7," he said. "You can't get let back in after you leave. I know that. Hell, I've been to games. You can't leave a game and then come back. It doesn't make any sense; you left. It's not punishment, that's ...
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Two linked to St. Clair County courthouse drug scandal indicted in federal court
FAIR: We can't understand the fuss, much less the end-of-the-world headlines, over St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones' announcement Tuesday ...
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Father sentenced for binding kids outside Wal-Mart
LAWRENCE, Kan. -; A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for binding and blindfolding two of his children a year ago in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern ...
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Danville schools teachers union settle contract
Tweet Widget DANVILLE -- The Danville school district and its largest bargaining unit have reached a tentative agreement about 14 months after officially launching contract negotiations. "I'm thrilled to have it done," Robin Twidwell, the Danville Education Association's president, wrote in an email announcing the news. "It's been a very long, time-consuming ...
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Updated Davis camp Habeeb denounce email about Erika Harold
Tweet Widget A Republican Party official from a rural county in the 13th Congressional District is accused of sending a racist email about Urbana attorney Erika Harold, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, in next spring's primary election. Jim Allen, the GOP county chairman in Montgomery County, allegedly sent the email late Tuesday night to Doug Ibendahl, editor of ...
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OfficeMax Office Depot pit Ill. v. Fla. for HQ
In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo, OfficeMax CEO Ravi Saligram, right, and Illinois Sen. Tom Cullerton, D-Villa Park, left, make their pitch asking the state of Illinois for tax breaks to keep the company's headquarters in-state after the office supply chain's merger with Office Depot Inc., during a Senate Executive Committee hearing at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, ...
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Illinois Adopts Nation’s Strictest Fracking Regulations
On Monday, Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation to regulate fracking in the state of Illinois. Legislation overwhelmingly passed both the Illinois Senate (52-3) and the House (108-9) last month. The law ...
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Fire engulfs central Illinois tire facility
HOOPESTON, Ill. (AP) -- Firefighters in central Illinois are battling a blaze at a tire-recycling facility that officials fear could go on for ...
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Parents Students Take Over Closing Schools Classroom
Parents and students occupied Lafayette Elementary School, near Chicago's Ukranian Village and Humboldt Park neighborhoods, on Wednesday, June 19, ...
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Deen Says She Used Racial Slur But Doesn’t Tolerate Hate
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Celebrity cook Paula Deen says she has used racial slurs in the past but insists she and her brother, who are accused of racial and sexual discrimination in a lawsuit by a former manager of their restaurant, don’t tolerate hateful behavior. In a court deposition filed Monday in federal court, an attorney for former restaurant manager Lisa Jackson presses the ...
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Bosh To Fans Who Left Early ‘Don’t Come Back For Game 7′
who left American Airlines Arena early in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. After all, the Heat were down by four points with 28 seconds left and the Spurs at the ...
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Thorne Miniature Rooms go fictional
If you live in Chicago and do not know about the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, then you must have been living under the proverbial rock before you came across this article.
The Thorne rooms are one of the most famous museum exhibits in the city. They are a collection of 68 rooms contained within glass boxes and are notable because each room is constructed at a 1-inch to 1-foot scale and all 68 rooms together display a range of historical periods from various cultures. Read more
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