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Chicago firefighter killed in I-55 crash near Springfield
An off-duty Chicago Fire Department firefighter/paramedic called a "soft spoken, thoughtful guy" who also knew how to have fun was killed in a motorcycle crash near Springfield this morning, officials said. Sean Sloe, 37, was assigned to Truck 55 at 6030...
Tags: Chicago Fire Department, Norwood Park, Avondale, Accidental Death
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In our state, politicians are protected — but not the rest of us
Illinois — where politicians force law-abiding citizens to bring a bat to a gunfight. An amazing video released Wednesday that shows a Chicago shopkeeper fighting for his life should be a commercial for Second Amendment rights in this, the only...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago City Hall, Shootings
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Illinois looking at different concealed carry rules for Cook County
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD — People who want to carry a concealed weapon in Chicago and elsewhere in Cook County would get an extra layer of scrutiny under legislation being drafted in the Illinois Senate, according to the authors of the proposal. The...Tags: Gun Control, Politics, Illinois General Assembly, Brandon W. Phelps, Crime, Law and Justice
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Real pension reform
Illinois House Minority Leader Tom Cross, R-Plainfield, and Rep. Elaine Nekritz, D-Buffalo Grove, recently wrote that it is time to “set aside our differences and work together” on pension reform ("Working together on pension reform," Guest...Tags: Investments, Tom Cross, Pension and Welfare, Government, Plainfield (Will, Illinois)
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Township tables Homer Glen request on festival sponsorship
Homer Township trustees have tabled a request from the Village of Homer Glen to bar the township and a festival committee from receiving sponsorship from anyone in litigation with the village. The township and the village are scheduled to co-host this...
Tags: Litigation, Trials, Litigation and Regulation, Human Interest, Homer Glen
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Naperville D203 rejects plan for online school
Naperville District 203 school board members rejected a proposal for an online charter school in the district at Monday's school board meeting. "There are many reasons to deny the application of the Illinois Virtual Charter School," said board member...
Tags: Students, Linda Chapa LaVia, Teaching and Learning, Chicago Charter Schools
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Former Illinois chief justice who argued against the death penalty dies
St. Louis Post-DispatchMoses W. Harrison II, a former chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court who adamantly argued against the state's death penalty in the months before former Gov. George Ryan's moratorium on capital punishment, died Thursday afternoon at Missouri...Tags: Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Mike Wallace, Anglicanism, Government
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'Education first'? Not in The Deadbeat State.
Indiana lawmakers are proposing huge increases in state education funding this year. Ditto those in Wisconsin. Here in Illinois, The Deadbeat State? Just the opposite. Education funding is being strangled by the same python that is strangling the rest...
Tags: Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Economy, Business and Finance, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy
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Gunman carried injured girl to neighbor after killing family in Manchester, Ill., police say
St. Louis Post-DispatchMANCHESTER, Ill. --A man broke into a home in this small Illinois town in the early hours Wednesday and killed five members of a family with close-range shotgun blasts, authorities said. A sixth victim was critically injured but carried to a neighbor'...Tags: Rick Odell Smith, Shootings
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Gun control: Connecticut taking action, Illinois sitting idle
On Thursday morning, members of my church and I will join the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and countless others in Springfield to lobby for responsible gun legislation: background checks, closed loopholes on private sales, an assault...Tags: Gun Control, Politics, Lobbying, National Rifle Association of America, Personal Weapon Control
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Discover What's Yours Today
The Illinois State Treasurer's Office has collected more than $1.7 billion in unclaimed property that belongs to millions of Illinois residents. This unclaimed property includes everything from forgotten bank accounts to entire estates that have never...
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Dorothy L. Koch
The funeral service for Dorothy L. Koch, 89, of Aberdeen, formerly of Ellendale, N.D., will be 11 a.m., Monday, April 8, 2013, at Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home, 1111 S. Main St., with Pastor Nathan Henschen officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset...
Tags: Nursing, American Legion, Tampa, Zion, Long Term Care
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