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Illinois stories: 282 news summaries

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 Town Fights 
 Public Boozing 
 With Warm Beer 

Hope is drinkers won't crack a can on the street if it's not frosty

Oct 23, 09 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Arlington Heights, Ill., is tackling its public drinking problem with a novel weapon: beer. Warm beer. Starting in January, stores won't sell single-serving bottles or cans of beer cold. You can still buy that tallboy, but the town is betting problem drinkers will be less likely to crack open... More »

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Chicago • alcoholism • beer • drinking • homeless • Illinois • public drinking • alcoholic • Arlington Heights

 Cabbies Ask for Vomit Penalty 

Chicago drivers want messy drunks to pay $50

Sep 24, 09 3:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chicago cab drivers want drunk passengers who vomit in their cars to pay a $50 fine. Drivers today asked the city for the penalty along with an overall rate increase of 22%. Chicago cabbies are among the lowest paid in the country, with wages averaging $4.38 an hour over... More »

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Chicago • alcohol • taxi • Illinois • transportation • vomiting

 Chicago Day-Care Home  
 Used for Dogfights 

Cops make arrests after raids in Maywood, Ill

Sep 24, 09 2:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chicago police raided an Illinois day-care center that apparently doubled as a brutal dogfighting operation. Ten children were being watched at the private home at the time of the raid. A swing set used by the kids was only 10 feet from a bloody garage where a “vicious” pit... More »

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police • children • felony • dogfighting • Illinois • daycare

OPINION

 Blago Memoir: 
 'I Didn't Do 
 Anything 
 Wrong' 

And he might move to New York, where no one has told him to 'F off' yet

Sep 21, 09 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - When it comes to political memoirs, Rod Blagojevich’s The Governor: Finally, the Truth Behind the Political Scandal That Continues to Rock the Nation “is surely unsurpassed” in the areas of “febrile self-defensiveness and look-over-there deflections and deceptions,” writes David Remnick for the New Yorker.... More »

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corruption • Illinois • memoir • governor • Rod Blagojevich • political scandal • Senate seat

Ferris Bueller House
Could Be Torn Down

It's on list of endangered landmarks

Sep 17, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The suburban Chicago house where Cameron killed his dad's Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off is on a list of endangered Illinois landmarks, the Chicago Tribune reports. The Highland Park home is on the market for $2.3 million and is at risk of being torn down. The preservation group... More »

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architecture • Illinois • Frank Lloyd Wright • historic preservation • Ferris Bueller's Day Off • Landmarks Illinois

(Newser) - A fight on a school bus in Illinois is generating lots of attention across the country. A videotape of the incident shows black teens beating a white classmate while some onlookers cheer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Police are investigating but have backed off an initial statement that the attack... More »

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Matt Drudge • Illinois • racial tension • taped beating • videotaped beating • school bus

Ex-Blago Aide Dead From 'Overdose'

Christopher Kelly says he spurned feds in Blagojevich case

Sep 12, 09 7:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - An important figure in the federal corruption case against Rod Blagojevich died today, the Chicago Tribune reports. Christopher Kelly, a former fundraiser and confidante to Blagojevich, died from salicylate intoxication, a county medical examiner's office said. Salicylates are found in pain relief and anti-inflammatory medications. One law enforcement source called... More »

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Illinois • governor • Rod Blagojevich • Christopher Kelly

 Talk Show Host Grills Blago 

Bonnie Hunt tells former governor to take responsibility

Sep 11, 09 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rod Blagojevich got unexpectedly tough treatment from Bonnie Hunt on her talk show today, the Chicago Tribune reports. In what was probably supposed to be a routine stop on the former governor’s book tour, Hunt, an Illinois native, instead pressed Blago on why he doesn’t take responsibility for... More »

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corruption • Illinois • memoir • daytime talk show • governor • Rod Blagojevich • talk-show host • daytime television • Bonnie Hunt

 Prez May Skip 
 Trip to Pitch 
 Chicago Olympics 

IOC chief says there's no clear favorite ahead of next month's vote on 2016

Sep 11, 09 1:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is keeping the team behind Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics guessing on whether he'll head to Copenhagen to personally address the International Olympic Committee before members make their choice next month, the Chicago Tribune reports. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says he isn't aware of any... More »

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Barack Obama • Illinois • Jacques Rogge • Olympic Games • 2016 Olympics • Chicago Olympics • International Olympic Committee • Olympics • President Obama

Missing Ill. Boy Found Hidden Behind Wall at Grandma's

Mother charged in connection with 6-year-old's disappearance

Sep 6, 09 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities in Illinois have found a boy who’d been missing for nearly 2 years hidden behind a wall in his grandmother’s house, and arrested his mother and grandmother in connection with his disappearance, the Chicago Tribune reports. “It was a good day today,” one official said,... More »

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kidnapping • Illinois • child custody • child abduction


 Chicagoans 
 Cool Off on 
 Olympic Bid 

Financial concerns drive lukewarm public support

Sep 3, 09 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Local support for Chicago's bid to play host to the 2016 Olympics has fallen sharply, with public opinion evenly split, the Chicago Tribune reports. Just 47% of Chicagoans in a new poll support the mayor’s initiative—a 14-point slide—while 45% oppose it. The main issue is expense: 84%... More »

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Chicago • Richard Daley • poll • Illinois • 2016 Olympics • Chicago Olympics • budget shortfall • Olympics • Summer Olympics

 Blago Book: 
 Senate Deal 
 'Routine' 
 Politics 

Former Illinois gov admits only 'routine' backroom dealing

Sep 1, 09 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rod Blagojevich’s memoir makes the case for his innocence with a lot of help from Shakespeare, the Chicago Tribune reports. While blaming his woes specifically on five enemies, he likens his plight to that of Othello and Lear. “You might as well throw in a little Richard... More »

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Patrick Fitzgerald • corruption • Illinois • memoir • governor • Tony Rezko • Rod Blagojevich • political scandal • Lisa Madigan • Michael Madigan • Richard Mell

(Newser) - Make sure you've had a good night's sleep before going to court in Illinois. Clifton Williams, 33, went to support his cousin during a hearing on a felony drugs charge, but during the sentencing he stretched his arms and let out a loud, distracting yawn. His cousin got just two... More »

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court • judge • Illinois • yawning • contempt of court • yawn

 Blago Bereft? Hit 
 GovernorRod.com 

Former guv launches his site, finally

Aug 10, 09 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Looking to book Rod Blagojevich for a speaking gig, but just weren’t sure how to get a hold of him? Now you can reach him with the click of a mouse, thanks to his new website, which the ousted governor named—of course—GovernorRod.com, the Chicago Sun-Times... More »

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Illinois • website • governor • Rod Blagojevich • politician

(Newser) - Police declared the whole of Burr Oak cemetery in the Chicago suburbs to be a crime scene last night, after hundreds of families reported empty or missing graves, including an entire section of the cemetery called Babyland, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Relatives will be barred from the site for about... More »

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Chicago • grave robbing • Illinois • burial • cemetery • Emmett Till • Burr Oak Cemetery

(Newser) - Roland Burris made it official this afternoon: He won't run for a full term next year, the Chicago Tribune reports. “I love serving the people of Illinois,” the current holder of President Obama's old Senate seat said. But “political races have become far too expensive... More »

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Barack Obama • Congress • Chicago • Senate • Senate Democrats • Illinois • Democratic Party • Rod Blagojevich • re-election • Election 2010 • Roland Burris

 Emmett Till's  
 Casket Found  
 'Rusted, Battered' 

Locals search for loved ones' graves at desecrated cemetery

Jul 10, 09 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Chicagoans mourned the desecration of a historic cemetery, the casket of civil rights icon Emmett Till was found rusted in a shack amid garbage and gravestones, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. “When we opened it up trying to find what we have, a family of possums ran out,”... More »

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Chicago • crime • murder • grave robbing • Illinois • Mississippi • civil rights • excavation • civil rights movement • Emmett Till • Burr Oak Cemetery

(Newser) - Roland Burris won't run for re-election to his Senate seat, both Chicago papers are reporting. The Illinois senator intends to stay in office through the end of his term in January 2011 but figures he can't raise enough money to mount a re-election campaign. In fact, he's raised a measly... More »

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Chicago • Senate • Illinois • Rod Blagojevich • senator • Roland Burris

 Cemetery Workers Dug Up 
 Bodies, Resold Graves 

Illinois cemetery employees excavated graves, dumped remains for cash

Jul 9, 09 4:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four employees of a historic Chicago-area cemetery face charges after police uncovered a gruesome scheme to excavate graves, remove the human remains, and resell the plots, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. One manager and three grave diggers at Burr Oak Cemetery are charged with dismembering a human body, which carries of... More »

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grave robbing • Illinois • resales • excavation • burial • scheme • Burr Oak Cemetery

Burris Won't Face Perjury Charges:
Ill. Prosecutor

Evidence on Blago contacts insufficient

Jun 19, 09 2:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Roland Burris will not be charged with perjury for neglecting to tell an Illinois House impeachment panel about additional discussions he had with associates of then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the State Journal-Register reports. While Burris did omit conversations about the Senate appointment with members of Blagojevich’s inner circle, they... More »

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Senate • Senate Democrats • bribe • corruption • perjury • Illinois • Rod Blagojevich • Roland Burris • John Schmidt

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