University of Illinois scholar new U.S. House historian (Belleville News-Democrat)

WASHINGTON - After more than a decade without an official historian, the House is once again paying attention to posterity with the hiring of a University of Illinois scholar to document its storied past.
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BRAC AND THE ARSENAL: ILLINOIS, iowa react (Quad-City Times)

WASHINGTON (AP) Illinois would lose nearly 2,700 jobs but none of its military bases under a Pentagon plan unveiled Friday after months of speculation, trepidation and politicking.
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Friends, family gather to remember slain Illinois girl (WHBF-TV Quad Cities)

WINTHROP HARBOR, Ill. Hundreds of mourners have gathered in a small Illinois church to remember a second-grader killed last weekend. Nine-year-old Krystal Tobias was found stabbed to death, along with her best friend, Laura Hobbs.
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Friends, family gather to remember slain Illinois girl (Ohio News Network)

WINTHROP HARBOR, Ill. Hundreds of mourners have gathered in a small Illinois church to remember a second-grader killed last weekend. Nine-year-old Krystal Tobias was found stabbed to death, along with her best friend, Laura Hobbs.
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Friends, family gather to remember slain Illinois girl (KRON 4 Bay Area)

WINTHROP HARBOR, Ill. Hundreds of mourners have gathered in a small Illinois church to remember a second-grader killed last weekend. Nine-year-old Krystal Tobias was found stabbed to death, along with her best friend, Laura Hobbs.
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News (Pantagraph)

NORMAL -- Illinois State University officials say potential students shouldn't let the price of an ISU degree scare them off. "Only one out of every three students is charged the full amount," said Steve Bragg, ISU vice president of finance and planning.
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Affordable Wireless Internet For All: How Media Activists Are Making Champaign-Urbana Illinois A Model For Community (Democracy Now!)

We speak with Sascha Meinrath, project coordinator of the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network. Meinrath also volunteers with the Champaign-Urbana Indymedia Center which just bought a 30,000 square foot post office.
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Freedom of Information Act case at Supreme Court centers on state cancer data (Herald & Review)

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on whether a state agency should allow the news media to review state cancer registry data.
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News (Pantagraph)

NORMAL -- Jon Tweedt knows firsthand how the rising costs of the state's public higher-education system hits families. As the father of two Illinois State University students and a high school senior who might enroll there next fall, Tweedt has shelled out more each year for his children's education.
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Rape Suspect Arrested In Sioux Falls (KELOLAND)

Sioux Falls police have arrested a fugitive from Illinois who's wanted for raping three girls in the Sioux Falls area. Charles Warren Smith was taken into custody just before two-thirty this morning at a home on East 60th Street North.
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News (Pantagraph)

SPRINGFIELD -- For seven years, David Hayes has watched workers come and go from the Illinois Air National Guard facility on Springfield's northern edge.
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Hospice plans a residential center (Belleville News-Democrat)

Hospice of Southern Illinois has moved a step closer to providing terminally ill patients a home away from home. The Belleville nonprofit corporation has received from the Bon Eau Foundation a 17-acre parcel of land in Madison County to begin construction on a hospice residential center.
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Central Illinois Bank Appoints Senior Executive (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Central Illinois Bank, an Illinois chartered bank and wholly owned subsidiary of CIB Marine Bancshares, Inc., recently named Michael Dexter as Senior Vice President and Commercial Lender for the metropolitan Peoria market. Mike comes to Central Illinois Bank with over fifteen years experience in commercial banking.
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Illinois Lotto jackpot grows to $3.75 million (Belleville News-Democrat)

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The jackpot in the Illinois State Lottery's Lotto game has grown to $3.75 million. The rollover occurred because no player matched all six winning numbers from Wednesday night's drawing.
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Proposal irks business owners (Peoria Journal Star)

PEORIA - Tim Norman started his Peoria technology business in the basement of his home while working full time. Fourteen years later, his company has grown from a one-man side show to a 150-employee firm serving the technology needs of several central Illinois businesses.
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Ameren to spend $1.4 billion on pollution control (Jefferson City News Tribune)

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Utility Ameren Corp. plans to spend up to $1.4 billion over the next four years to bring coal-burning power plants in Missouri and Illinois into compliance with federal emissions guidelines.
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Hercules to Peoria's rescue (Peoria Journal Star)

PEORIA - It was the best-case scenario Friday for members of the 182nd Airlift Wing as the Defense Department announced the Illinois Air National Guard unit will gain - not lose - jobs as part of a national base restructuring plan.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

CARBONDALE -- For the third time this season, Southern Illinois senior P.J. Finigan was named the Missouri Valley Conference's Pitcher of the Week, as announced Monday by the league office.
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$3 million in grants on the way (Peoria Journal Star)

SPRINGFIELD - State grants totaling almost $3 million are on the way to Peoria, Springfield and other communities with off-track betting parlors, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced on Friday.
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Advertisement (Peoria Journal Star)

PEORIA - A demolition site in Peoria that showed high levels of chromium, a hazardous material, has been covered and fenced, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday.
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