Illinois CPA Society Honors Vincent Villinski and Richard Ziegler With Lifetime Achievement Awards (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

The Illinois CPA Society recently honored two outstanding professionals for their service and leadership to the Certified Public Accountant profession. Vincent Villinski, CPA, MBA and Richard E.
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Corgan wants to reunite Pumpkins (CNN.com)

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- On the same day Billy Corgan released his first solo album, he revealed that he wants to reunite his band, The Smashing Pumpkins.
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SBC points finger at IDOT over Illinois 37 delay (Mt. Vernon Register-News)

MT. VERNON — A spokesperson with SBC Communications denies that the phone company is entirely responsible for delaying certain work needed to widen Illinois 37.
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Fitch Rates Advocate Health Care Network -- Illinois -- Series 2005 Bonds 'AA-' (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Fitch has assigned an underlying 'AA-' rating to the approximately $225 million Illinois Finance Authority revenue refunding bonds, series 2005 . The bonds will be auction-rate securities and are expected to be insured by Ambac Assurance Corp., whose insurer financial strength is rated 'AAA' by Fitch.
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It's back to Illinois for Dee Brown (AberdeenNews.com)

CHICAGO - An untimely break went Illinois' way Monday. "I'm pulling my name out of the NBA draft," Dee Brown announced in Champaign, meaning the Big Ten's Player of the Year is returning for his senior year at Illinois.
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Fitch Rates Evanston, Illinois' $29MM GO Bonds 'AAA' (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AAA' rating to the City of Evanston, Illinois' $29,140,000 general obligation bonds, series 2005, which will price through Legg Mason Wood Walker Incorporated on or about June 22.
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Brown passes on NBA to return to Illinois (The Indianapolis Star)

Dee Brown , still on crutches after breaking his right foot at a pre-draft camp two weeks ago, announced Monday that he has withdrawn his name from the June 28 NBA draft and will return to Illinois for his senior season.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

MARION -- A Carterville company made a proposal to city officials here to help bring Marion into compliance with Illinois Environmental Protection Agency policy. David Ellet of American Backflow management of Carterville made his proposal Monday night.

Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

MARION -- To most people in Illinois, Senator Richard J. Durbin's comments comparing the conditions at the military prison at Guantanmo Bay, Cuba, to World War II Nazi and Soviet regimes was just an analogy, whether it be a good one or a bad one.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

CARBONDALE -- Josh Tabb, a Carbondale High School grad and Southern Illinois University men's basketball signee, announced Monday he will attend a prep school during the 2005-06 school year.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

SPRINGFIELD -- While tickets sales may be soaring for "Batman" the movie, the real-life bat in your backyard may be as big a hero to Illinois homeowners as the superhero of Gotham City. The bat is a nocturnal mammal that plays a key role in the environment, sometimes eating thousands of insects in a single night.
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Brown returns to Illinois (The Buffalo News)

Still on crutches after breaking his foot at a predraft camp, Dee Brown withdrew his name Monday from the NBA draft and will return to Illinois for his senior season.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

CARBONDALE -- There's something to be said about good pitching. Momentum stems from it. Offenses struggle against it. All three of Southern Illinois University's weekend starters from last season were selected in the Top 20 rounds of the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft because of it.
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Injured Brown makes it official: He'll return to Illinois (ESPN)

Still sidelined for several weeks with broken foot by Associated Press CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Dee Brown, who recently broke his foot at an NBA pre-draft camp, said Monday he will return to Illinois for his senior season. The Illini guard, who averaged 13 points and 4.5 assists last season, had declared for the June...
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ILLINOIS: (High Plains Journal)

OMAHA (DTN) -- Early-week showers maintained adequate to abundant moisture reserves in the upper Midwest and eased dry conditions in the lower Great Lakes States, but largely bypassed the central Corn Belt. Concern about soil moisture shortages continues in an area centered on northern Illinois.
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Meacham to leave Dayton for Illinois (Ohio News Network)

DAYTON, Ohio -- University of Dayton guard Trent Meacham has decided to transfer to the University of Illinois, Dayton said on Tuesday. As a freshman last season, Meacham averaged 6.4 points and 2.7 assists off the bench. He shot .459 from 3-point range.
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Illinois Rattled By 3.9 Earthquake (CBS 2 Chicago)

A small earthquake centered in western Kentucky rattled residents across parts of Illinois, Kentucky and three other states.
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FBI Raids Illinois Defense Contractor (AP via Yahoo! News)

Federal investigators raided a defense contractor that supplied parts for the Army's Apache helicopters, but officials won't say what was being sought.
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Wis. Power Plant Project Causes Alarm (AP via Yahoo! News)

Environmentalists and the state of Illinois are lining up against a proposal to construct a mammoth coal-burning power plant on the shores of Lake Michigan, warning it will pollute the air and water across the Midwest and set off a "coal rush" to build more such projects around the country.
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Illinois makes plea to keep threatened military jobs (Chicago Sun-Times)

ST. LOUIS -- Top politicians from Illinois pressed amid long odds Monday to prevent Defense Department-proposed changes to the state's military bases that would send about 2,700 jobs elsewhere.
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Blagojevich signs bill meant to stoke new uses for Illinois coal (Belleville News-Democrat)

MOUNT VERNON, Ill. - Looking to stoke the state's flagging coal industry, Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed legislation Thursday meant to help develop new markets for Illinois coal by encouraging its conversion to synthetic natural gas.
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