Disaster declaration sought to aid Illinois farmers (Mendota Reporter)

SPRINGFIELD – Governor Rod R. Blagojevich has requested federal disaster assistance for drought-stricken Illinois farmers who have sustained substantial crop losses this year.
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Farm and Food: Uncle Honey's back -- with matches (Lincoln Journal Star)

The last week of July and first week of August were always the longest and hottest weeks of the year on the southern Illinois farm of my youth. They were some of the most dangerous weeks of the year, too.
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News (Pantagraph)

CHICAGO -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed into law Friday night a measure requiring state and local governments in Illinois to officially recognize the identification cards issued by foreign consulates and used by immigrants.
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Volunteers lend Mother Nature a hand (The Beacon News)

AURORA — The Fox River was the guest of honor Saturday when Downtown Aurora hosted its fifth annual Help Plant Aurora's Riverbanks. Some 95 volunteers planted 2,000 water willow plants along the east channel of the river, from New York Street north to Illinois Avenue.
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Great uncle Honey's back - and with matches (AberdeenNews.com)

The last week of July and first week of August were always the longest and hottest weeks of the year on the southern Illinois' farm of my youth. They were some of the most dangerous weeks of the year, also.
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Transportation bill includes major Illinois projects (ABC 7 Chicago)

July 28, 2005 (WASHINGTON) — Congress is gearing up to consider a compromise transportation bill that promises $1.23 billion a year, and possibly much more, for Illinois road, bridge and mass transit projects over the next five years.
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Illinois Drought (WTHI-TV Terre Haute)

The drought is having an impact on the Wabash Valley. Folks driving through the cornfields in Illinois might not notice the damage that's been done by weeks of hot and dry weather.
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Accused arsonist allowed to leave state (Belleville News-Democrat)

Accused arsonist Michael Augustine, a former Waterloo alderman, has been given permission to leave Illinois and travel to watch his son play basketball.
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2005 Kane County Fair, 4-H Results (Kane County Chronicle)

Copyright - 1999-2004 Kane County Chronicle - 1000 Randall Road - Geneva, Illinois 60134 - (630) 232-9222 - Subscription (630) 232-9239.
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Drought takes toll on corn crop in Illinois (KRON 4 Bay Area)

PUTNAM, Ill. The corn crop in Illinois is withering in the state's worst drought in nearly 20 years. The drought is stunting crops across the Farm Belt, but it's especially severe in Illinois.
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UNI believes it has personnel for 3-4 (Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier)

ST. LOUIS - The Gateway Conference is loaded with great offensive football players. Seven of the eight league members return their starting quarterbacks, including Offensive Player of the Year Joel Sambursky of Southern Illinois.
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Central Illinois jobless rate drops (Peoria Journal Star)

PEORIA - Unemployment rates dropped in central Illinois over the past year because of manufacturing gains. The Peoria area was cited along with Decatur, Chicago and the Lake County area as the state's biggest job winners in the past year.
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60-acre, $90 mil. water park resort opens in Utica (Chicago Sun-Times)

UTICA, Ill. -- Grizzly Jack's Grand Bear Lodge, Illinois' first indoor water park complex and resort, has opened about 90 miles southwest of Chicago, and officials hope the resort will attract some vacationers who usually head to the famed water parks of Wisconsin Dells.
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Safety Locks Required When Guns Are Bought (WBBM)

- CHICAGO --Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed legislation Saturday that requires all handguns sold by federally licensed firearms dealers in Illinois to include a safety lock.
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Giants hope Jacobs solves short-yardage woes (Sports Illustrated)

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- It's easy to spot Brandon Jacobs on the New York Giants practice field. He's the one towering over the rest of the running backs like a Hummer in a lot full of Jaguars.
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Scientists pinpoint gene in corn responsible for neat rows of kernels / Mutant stalk found in 1909 provided key to (San Francisco Chronicle)

As you bite into sweet corn think about the Illinois farmer whose 1909 discovery of a bizarre stalk of corn helped geneticists unravel the beauty of the modern vegetable's tidy, straight rows. Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island...
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Giants Rookie Eyed for Short-Yardage Spots (AP via Yahoo! News)

It's easy to spot Brandon Jacobs on the New York Giants practice field. He's the one towering over the rest of the running backs.
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Cliff's Weather Gems (Coeur d'Alene Press)

Everyone lately, it seems, has been talking about GLOBAL WARMING and WORLDWIDE DROUGHTS. Crops this wild summer of 2005 have been destroyed by adverse weather on five continents, including the North American U.S. Corn Belt, especially hard-hit Illinois, where at least 30% of this year's corn crop has "bitten the dust."
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Jayhawks two wins away from title (Northwest Indiana Times)

LYNWOOD | Through nearly four innings Saturday, the 13-year-old Illinois Jayhawks had only one run against Lake Zurich and trailed 3-1. On the surface, the Chicago Heights-based team's undefeated streak in the Continental Amateur Baseball Association (CABA) World Series was in jeopardy.
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Sorenson spoils Wallaces'tribute (Sun-Sentinel)

MADISON, Illinois· Rookie Reed Sorenson took control with 33 laps to go and pulled away to win the NASCAR Busch Series Wallace Family Tribute 250 on Saturday night.
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