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Where in Illinois will people be able to use marijuana? Local governments will decide
With recreational marijuana set to become legal in Illinois on Jan. 1, local governments are going to have to decide whe…
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Collection of 'quiet, unassuming' baseball scout now in Cooperstown
Mary McDonald of Springfield remembered fondly visiting her great uncle, Lou Maguolo, at his home in Clayton, Missouri, …
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Advocates hope Illinois private detention ban sparks change
CHICAGO - Far from the southern border crisis, Illinois has launched a bullish effort to undercut the Trump administrati…
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Statehouse Insider: Money grab not legislature's finest moment
Pretty much everyone has probably had to deal with a situation where a distant family member did something so embarrassi…
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Block party celebrates start of school, calls for end to violence
Just more than a week after Springfield marked its eighth homicide of the year, hundreds of residents flocked to Jaycee …
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LRS expands with west side campus expansion
When Levi, Ray & Shoup marks four decades in business this fall, it will be on a campus that looks quite different than …
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For Rockford rocket scientists, Apollo launched career dreams
ROCKFORD - Fifty years after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, some of the states's rocket scientists are recalling how the h…
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Local Business Notes: One year since Governor's Mansion reopened
A year ago today, the gates of the ILLINOIS GOVERNOR'S MANSION reopened to the public after a $15 million renovation.The…
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Bernard Schoenburg: National spotlight again shines on 13th District
There is no doubt the 13th Congressional District, now represented by Rep. RODNEY DAVIS, R-Taylorville, will once again …
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Lamb, Marte power Arizona past Cardinals
ST. LOUIS - Jake Lamb and Ketel Marte homered, Robbie Ray allowed just two hits over 6 1/3 innings, and the Arizona Diam…
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New dialysis center opens in Springfield as part of nationwide growth curve
As demand for dialysis services grows nationwide - in part fueled by American eating habits, inactivity and obesity - op…
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Public union membership not down significantly since Janus
While public union membership has decreased in Illinois since the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus decision a year ago, at lea…
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Next year's Lincoln Land Championship July 13-16
Kate Peters, executive director of the Lincoln Land Championship Presented by LRS, said Thursday that the fifth annual m…
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Dog park for Centennial Park in first phase
Dog owner D.J. Schnell of Springfield welcomes the planned construction of a new dog park at Centennial Park on Springfi…
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State lawmakers who voted to reject pay raises violated the law, judge rules
Every lawmaker who served in the General Assembly between 2009 and 2018 might be entitled to back pay, a Cook County jud…
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