Construction on Illinois 53 ahead of schedule (The Beacon News)

ELWOOD — Work to extend utilities east along Illinois 53 continues. "We are actually ahead of schedule for our part of the work," said Steve Issert of Issert Construction.
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News (Pantagraph)

NORMAL -- A traveling exhibit about U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton won't visit Illinois State University until fall 2008. ISU officials were told in June that Milner Library could expect the exhibition's arrival in fall 2006.
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News (Pantagraph)

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich put the Pentagon on formal notice Monday that he will not approve its proposed move of F-16 fighter aircraft from the 183rd Fighter Wing in Springfield to Indiana.
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Illinois Lotto grand prize now $9.5 million (Belleville News-Democrat)

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The jackpot for the Illinois State Lottery's Lotto game has grown to $9.5 million. The rollover occurred because no player matched all six winning numbers from Saturday night's drawing.
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Men say they didn t commit murder By Robert Sanchez (Daily Herald)

Family members are standing behind two DuPage County men accused of the beating death of a University of Illinois at Chicago student in Chicago.
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Lewis leads in Illinois (Evening Standard)

JL Lewis carded a two-under-par 69 to take a three-shot lead after the third round of the John Deere Classic in Illinois. Lewis, who won this event in 1999, is finally making the headlines after Michelle Wie's failure to make the cut and finished on 15 under at 198.
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Farm Aid still raising money 20 years later (Peoria Journal Star)

CHICAGO - Twenty years after Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young organized a daylong music festival in central Illinois to benefit cash-strapped farmers, Farm Aid is coming back to the state where it started to celebrate its anniversary, organizers announced Monday.
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Cancer meeting slated for today (The Beacon News)

BATAVIA — The Illinois Department of Public Health and the American Cancer Society will host a town meeting in Batavia today to discuss strategies to prevent and control cancer in Illinois.
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O'Hair gets Open spot with PGA win (CNN.com)

SILVIS, Illinois (AP) -- Sean O'Hair shot a 6-under-par 65 on Sunday, holding off J.L. Lewis and Hank Kuehne to win the John Deere Classic for his first career U.S. PGA Tour victory.
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Blago fights to keep fighter wing in Illinois (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Pentagon’s realignment plan would move the 183rd to Indiana.
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Illinois Summer Baseball Summaries (Northwest Indiana Times)

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Bloggers learn the price of telling too much (CNN.com)

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Blogs are everywhere -- increasingly, the place where young people go to bare their souls, to vent, to gossip. And often they do so with unabashed fervor and little self-editing, posting their innermost thoughts for any number of Web surfers to see.
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Grape expectations: Illinois proves ripe for wineries (Belleville News-Democrat)

Jim Ewers fashions his place as a bit of Italy in Illinois - a newly built winery that resembles a 400-year-old Tuscan villa, tucked among rolling hills and vistas near a lush national forest.
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Riding the circuit: A look at historic courthouses across Central Illinois (Herald & Review)

LINCOLN - Any recounting of the history of the Logan County Courthouse would be incomplete without first noting that the county has had three county seats and five courthouses since its inception in 1839.
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Navy Pier commemorates rebirth (Chicago Sun-Times)

Chicago's Navy Pier wasn't always the No. 1 attraction in the state. Once it was a World War II pilot training facility, a University of Illinois college campus, a working inland port and host site of ChicagoFest.
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Illinois Trustees Asked To Approve 2-Year Extension For Bruce Weber (CSTV's College Sports)

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - The University of Illinois Board of Trustees will be asked to approve a two-year contract extension and $150,000 raise for basketball coach Bruce Weber, who led the Illini to the national championship game and a 37-2 record last season.
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Illinois wants to sign Weber long-term (Covers.com)

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The University of Illinois Board of Trustees will be asked to approve a two-year contract extension and $150,000 raise for basketball coach Bruce Weber, who led the Illini to the national championship game and a 37-2 re...
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Illinois OKs laws to track sex offenders (The Beacon News)

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed several laws Sunday designed to help authorities keep better tabs on sex offenders, including one that makes Illinois the 14th state to allow lifetime supervision of dangerous sex offenders, officials said.
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Illinois trustees asked to approve extension (Fox Sports)

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees will be asked to approve a two-year contract extension and $150,000 raise for basketball coach Bruce Weber, who led the Illini to the national championship game and a 37-2 record last season. The deal would put Weber under contract through the 2010-2011 season and create a deferred compensation account that could pay him more than $1.
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Illinois seeks to lockup Weber (CBS Sportsline)

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees will be asked to approve a two-year contract extension and a $150,000 raise for basketball coach Bruce Weber.
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O'Hair wins maiden tournament in Illinois (RTÉ News)

American Sean O'Hair claimed his maiden U.S. PGA Tour win at the John Deere Classic on Sunday in Silvis, Illinois.
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