Peabody Energy fires up Illinois mine, hiring 200 (BizJournals)

St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp. is on track to open a coal mine in Coulterville, Ill., that it purchased early this year as part of a $61 million acquisition of mining operations in southern Illinois and southern Indiana.
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RACING: Illinois driver wins IMCA Late Models race (Globe Online)

MASON CITY — Kevin Blum admits he's not a very lucky guy. So when it was time to draw his starting spot for Tuesday's Deery Brothers IMCA Late Model feature, he let his girlfriend try her hand.
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ATA: Planes are not part of Chicago Express sale (The Indianapolis Star)

A $1.25 million deal with an Illinois investment group to buy parts and inventory from ATA Airlines' grounded subsidiary Chicago Express does not include any planes, company officials said.
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Advertisement (Peoria Journal Star)

HOPEDALE - The Central Illinois Community Blood Center is looking for new and existing blood donors to help replenish its blood supply, which typically dips during the summer months.
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Canton to ask state police to probe theft of laptop (Peoria Journal Star)

CANTON - The Canton City Council voted Tuesday to ask the Illinois State Police to reinvestigate last year's theft of a laptop computer from City Hall in hopes of ending the issue for good.
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Blagojevich signs bow-hunting bill (Peoria Journal Star)

SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed legislation Tuesday raising the number of nonresident archery deer hunters allowed in Illinois from 15,000 to 20,000.
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Fitch Rates Friendship Village of Schaumburg, Illinois 2005A & B 'BB+' (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BB+' rating to the following issues for Friendship Village of Schaumburg , which are expected to be issued through the Illinois Finance Authority:
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Illinois Woman Dies In Rafting Accident (The New Mexico Channel)

PILAR, N.M. -- An Illinois woman who couldn't swim died in a rafting accident on the Rio Grande river Sunday. State police spokesman Peter Olson says 61-year-old Carol Walen was killed after the raft she was in flipped between Pilar and Embudo in northern New Mexico.
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Illinois Policy Institute, CAGW to Release Illinois Piglet Book (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)

The Illinois Policy Institute (IPI), Illinois's only state focused free-market think tank, in conjunction with the nation's premiere taxpayer watchdog, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), will hold a press conference on Wednesday, June 8 to release the Illinois Piglet Book, a detailed analysis of $600 million in wasteful spending in the state's budget.
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Australia Hires U.S. College Coach to Head Tennis Development (Bloomberg.com)

June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Tennis Australia has given Craig Tiley the role of nurturing the country's next generation of champions after the South African guided the University of Illinois to the U.S. national title in 2003.
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Illinois woman dies in Rio Grande rafting accident (ABC 7 Chicago)

June 6, 2005 (PILAR, N.M.) — An Illinois woman who couldn't swim has been killed in a rafting accident on the Rio Grande river in northern New Mexico.
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Illini's Flakes suspended after drug charge (Sports Illustrated)

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- University of Illinois football coach Ron Zook has suspended redshirt freshman quarterback Kisan Flakes from the team indefinitely after he was charged with marijuana possession.
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Illinois State Toll Highway Authority's Jeff Dailey and Joby Berman, and HNTB Architecture's Kathi Littmann Join (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Chief Engineer Jeff Dailey and Deputy Chief of Engineering Joby Berman of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, and Kathi Littmann, vice president of HNTB Architecture, Inc. will join a high-level list of speakers at McGraw-Hill Construction's Engineering News-Record's 2005 Top Firm Leaders Forum, June 14 & 15 in Chicago.
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KOBTV.com - Illinois woman dies in rafting accident (KOBTV.com Albuquerque)

PILAR, N.M. (AP) - An Illinois woman who couldn’t swim has been killed in a rafting accident on the Rio Grande river Sunday. State police spokesman Peter Olson says 61-year-old Carol Walen was killed after the raft she was in flipped between Pilar and Embudo in northern New Mexico.
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Studies: TB still a stubborn challenge (CNN.com)

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- From drug-resistant tuberculosis in California to high disease rates in South African gold mines, stubborn challenges threaten health officials' goals for drastically reducing TB globally within 10 years, several studies show.
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Illinois Officials Face New Hurdles (Casino City Times)

Illinois â As reported by the Quad- City Times: "Casino Rock Island officials aren't resting on the laurels of their recent legislative victory.
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Duke lands prized recruit from Illinois (News 14 Charlotte)

NORTHBROOK, Ill. -- A 6-6 all-state 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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Illinois man injured in watercraft accident (Gazette Extra Sports)

FULTON TOWNSHIP-An Illinois man was hurt in a personal watercraft accident Sunday on the Rock River.
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Illinois gets about 32 tornadoes yearly (Northwest Herald)

Q. What is the average number of tornadoes that happen each summer, and what causes them to occur? Does it depend on if there is a lot of open land vs. a city? –
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Missouri calls off search in case that netted Illinois murder charges (Kansas City Star)

PEORIA, Ill. - Authorities have called off a search for three people a former Navy SEAL claims he killed and buried in Missouri, a move his attorney says casts doubt on a confession that led to murder charges in a separate Illinois killing.
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