Illinois high school junior choses Duke over Illinois (The Herald-Sun)

A 6-6 all-state high school junior announced Tuesday he will play basketball for Duke instead of Illinois. Jon Scheyer chose Duke even though his high school basketball coach is the brother of Illinois' coach Bruce Weber.
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Barack Obama: The Junior Senator from Illinois answers our questions about health care (Southern Illinoisan)

Q. What is YOUR message about healthcare to the residents of southern Illinois? A. I believe health care is a right for everyone, not a privilege for the few.
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Illinois wide receiver David Williams in college football Hall of Fame (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

NEW YORK - Illinois wide receiver David Williams is among 11 players and two coaches newly elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. The class of 2005 was announced Wednesday.
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Illinois Governor Defends Offbeat Boast (ABC News)

Illinois Governor Defends His Boast of 'Testicular Virility' in Making Decisions
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Priest from Illinois to succeed Fort Worth bishop (Macon Telegraph)

FORT WORTH, Texas - (KRT) - Monsignor Kevin W. Vann of Illinois has been named co-adjutor bishop of the Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese and will succeed ailing Bishop Joseph Delaney when he retires, church officials announced this week.
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Flexible tactile sensors could help robots work better (PhysOrg)

A robot's sensitivity to touch could be vastly improved by an array of polymer-based tactile sensors that has been combined with a robust signal-processing algorithm to classify surface textures. The work, performed by a team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is an essential step in the development of robots that can identify and manipulate objects in unstructured
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'The Rev' shares his dream at prayer breakfast (The State Journal-Register)

Anyone who spent the first three months of 2004 living and dying with the Illini basketball team - and in Illinois that was almost everyone - knows something was up with Roger Powell's shoes.
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Lawsuit Seeks To Overturn Indiana Law Restricting Wine Sales (WRTV Indianapolis)

INDIANAPOLIS -- Wineries in Illinois and Michigan asked a federal judge to strike down an Indiana law that prohibits consumers from buying wine directly from out of state.
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State faces test of its stance on wine sales (The Indianapolis Star)

Consumers in Indiana and wine makers in Illinois and Michigan challenged Indiana's law barring out-of-state wineries from selling directly to Hoosiers.
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Inquest Ordered In VU Student's Death (WFIE-TV)

A coroner says he'll release more details in the death of a former Vincennes University student later this month. The body of 19-year-old Christophr Thiem was found in late April, along the White River, in White County, Illinois.
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Tattoo age could soon be lowered to 18 (Daily Herald via Yahoo! News)

SPRINGFIELD - The legal age for getting a tattoo would drop to 18 under legislation the Illinois Senate sent to the governor's desk Tuesday.
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Celebrating 50 years of being the 'Land of Lincoln' (Peoria Journal Star)

STREATOR (AP) - Illinois celebrated its golden anniversary as the "Land of Lincoln" on Tuesday. While the state has long claimed Abraham Lincoln as its favorite son, it was not until 1955 that a lawmaker from Streator thought to make the claim official.
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Body in river identified as that of Illinois woman (The Indianapolis Star)

Vincennes -- Authorities have identified a body found in the Wabash River over the weekend as that of a 37-year-old Illinois woman missing since Dec. 27.
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Illinois Tool Works "overweight" (New Ratings)

NEW YORK, May 17 (newratings.com) - Analyst Andrew M Casey of Prudential Financial reiterates his "overweight" rating on Illinois Tool Works Inc (ITW.NYS). The target price is set to $105.
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Illinois lawmakers hammering out plan as overtime session looms (Belleville News-Democrat)

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois lawmakers have two more weeks to fill a $1 billion dollar budget hole or go into a summer overtime session. House and Senate budget experts say there's still time for legislators to put together a spending plan before June 1.
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An Illinois Man Runs 2900.6 Miles, From California to Virginia (RedNova)

Bruce W. Johnson tried not to think about his feet. Split, bruised and swollen so badly he had to slice open the sides of his running shoes to relieve the pressure, his feet have taken a pounding these past 2,897 miles. Johnson would rather focus on the horizon.
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Ousted child psychiatrist to join University of Illinois at Chicago (ABC 7 Chicago)

May 17, 2005 — Child psychiatrist Bennett Leventhal will join the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago. School officials say seven of his former colleagues at the University of Chicago also are switching ranks.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

MARION -- The Marion Junior High boys track team won the Class L Southern Illinois Junior High School Athletic Association state meet Saturday at Marion High School.
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Twenty Charged With Illegally Selling Cigarettes (WISH-TV Indianapolis)

(Hammond) - Federal authorities say that two Hoosiers are part of an illegal cigarette ring. The US Attorney's office says 20 people have been charged as part of a ring that acquired cigarettes in Indiana then sold them across the border in Illinois without paying taxes.
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Policy Briefing on State-by-State Ownership Scorecard on May 20; ShriverCenter, IABG Highlight Illinois Asset Building, (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)

Alarming discrepancies in net worth between women and men, minorities and whites and even between average residents of different states highlight the findings of a new economic scorecard that was released today. On May 20, the Chicago-based Shriver Center, CFED, and the Illinois Asset Building Group (IABG) will be holding a policy briefing in Springfield addressing the scorecard
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