ACLJ Adds Additional Pharmacists to Lawsuit against Illinois Governor Challenging Order Requiring Pharmacists to (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

The American Center for Law and Justice , which specializes in constitutional law, today filed an amended complaint in state court in Illinois adding four additional pharmacists to its lawsuit challenging Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's emergency amendment to the state code requiring pharmacists to dispense medication even if filling the prescriptions violate their conscience and religious
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Illinois Tallies Spring Turkey Harvest (Buckmasters)

Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 14,968 wild turkeys during the spring turkey season that concluded last week. The preliminary total fell just short of last year's record-setting statewide harvest of 15,066 birds.
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Minnesota Tops Voter Turnout, Wisconsin Second, Illinois in the Middle (WIFR-TV Rockford)

The U.S. Census Bureau says Minnesota had the nation's highest voter turnout and Wisconsin came in second. Illinois ranked 22nd. In Minnesota, 79 percent of eligible voters went to the polls in 2004. That's up from 2000, when 70 percent of Minnesotans ages 18 and older voted. Wisconsin had 77 percent.
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Movie's stunts star a local quarterback (Peoria Journal Star)

MACOMB - As "The Longest Yard" opened in movie theaters across the nation Friday, some Western Illinois University football fans may have noticed a familiar name in the credits.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

MARION -- The Illinois Department of Transportation is alerting motorists traveling on Old Illinois 13 in Crab Orchard that starting Wednesday, June 1, the road from the Saraville Road to the Paulton Road will be closed to through traffic.
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Fate of wild horses to be considered in U.S. Senate (The Olympian)

WASHINGTON -- Moved by the news that 41 wild horses sold by the federal government had ended up at an Illinois slaughterhouse, a majority of the House voted this month to ban future sales.
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Hernandez, Hernandez win! (Fightnews.com)

Hernandez, Hernandez win! The second professional boxing event to hit the Chicago area in just one week landed at the Ramada Plaza Hotel near O'Hare airport in Chicago Illinois on Friday, May 27th.
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Texas trucker stopped in Illinois after 140-mile police pursuit (KVIA)

MARION, Ill. A truck driver is in custody after police say he led them on a 140-mile pursuit in his 18-wheeler that started in Kentucky and ended in southern Illinois.
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Hernandez & Hernandez win! (Fightnews.com)

The second professional boxing event to hit the Chicago area in just one week landed at the Ramada Plaza Hotel near O'Hare airport in Chicago Illinois on Friday, May 27th.
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Schools and taxes (Zephyr)

As Illinois lawmakers debate the coming fiscal year budget one key issue is school funding.
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ISU loses basketball MVP Gordon to grades (Sports Illustrated)

NORMAL, Ill. (AP) -- Lorenzo Gordon, the most valuable player on Illinois State University's basketball team last season, has been dismissed from the university for academic reasons and will forgo his senior year, the school said.
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Tollway work suspends lane closures over holiday weekend (The Beacon News)

The Illinois Tollway has suspended all temporary lane closures on construction projects over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, until 9 a.m. Tuesday.
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Court rules against couple in failed adoption (Chicago Sun-Times)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-- Dawn and Gene Scott lost their appeal Friday in their attempt to regain custody of the 4-year-old boy they had raised since infancy, but then had to return to his biological mother in Illinois.
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Ademi & O'Reilly, LLP Files Class Action Suit Against Corn Products International, Inc. -- CPO (pzone via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)

MILWAUKEE, May 28, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Ademi & O'Reilly, LLP (http://www.ademilaw.com/cases/Corn.php) announced that it has filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on behalf of purchasers of Corn Products International, Inc. ("Corn Products") (NYSE:CPO) securities during the period between January 25, 2005 and April 4, 2005 (the
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Suburban Man Drowns In Florida (CBS 2 Chicago)

A 40-year-old Illinois man drowned after struggling with a rip current, authorities said Saturday.
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Public library to use fingerprint scanners to verify identity (Engadget)

So we thought the whole thing about public libraries providing free internet access is a pretty great idea — lowering the digital divide and all that. Too bad it’s going on lockdown in Naperville, Illinois, where library officials are implementing a system that requires authentication by fingerprint scanner before you can sit down at a public terminal and fire up that browser. There’s some mumbo
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Road to Illini country marked in orange (Galesburg Register-Mail)

"Well, they have some job security," I told my steering wheel Tuesday. I was driving alone, eastbound to Champaign-Urbana for a meeting at the University of Illinois.
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Hoopston Soldier Killed In Iraq (CBS 2 Chicago)

The crisis in Iraq is once again gripping a family here in Illinois.
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Video Game Bill Goes To Governor (CBS 2 Chicago)

Illinois lawmakers voted Saturday to ban the sale of violent or sexually explicit video games to minors, a proposal pushed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich that would make Illinois the only state with such a law.
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Lawmakers vote to ban sale of violent video games to minors (ABC 7 Chicago)

May 28, 2005 — Illinois lawmakers voted Saturday to make it illegal to sell or rent violent and sexually explicit video games to minors, a move other states and cities have tried but federal courts have repeatedly struck down.
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Judge denies bond for Burr Ridge man who fled sexual assault charges (Belleville News-Democrat)

CHICAGO - A judge on Saturday denied bond for a Burr Ridge man, one day after he returned to Illinois from overseas to face charges that he took part in a videotaped rape.
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