Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Amtrak says 1.8 million passengers rode its state-supported trains in Illinois in fiscal year 2009, a slight increase from 2008. The Illinois Department of Transportation supports several Amtrak routes. The most popular are the routes from Chicago to St. Louis and from Chicago to Milwaukee. Amtrak officials say while ridership on the transportation department routes rose...
orgtheory.net (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Two weeks ago, I was invited to give a seminar at the Illinois Department of African American Studies. I was hosted by the students in the PhD core course and their instructor, Abdul Alkalimat. The discussion was a very long interrogation of my book, but I’ll share with you one very interesting exchange. At one [...]
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The Sun-Times reports: The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will direct the state's largest fish kill Wednesday on a nearly 6-mile long section of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near Romeoville. Poison will be used in an effort to keep the destructive Asian carp out of Lake Michigan. The kill is designed to give the Army Corps of Engineers time to perform maintenance on...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... a cluster of large nursing homes admit hundreds of felons who have severe psychiatric disorders. Illinois is unique among states in relying on nursing homes to house younger adults with mental illness, including several thousand felons. A recent Tribune investigation documented reports that violent psychiatric patients who were not receiving proper treatment assaulted, raped and even murdered...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The village of Skokie, after catching a windfall of H1N1 flu vaccine while other places still face shortages, will begin holding vaccination clinics this week for anyone in Illinois who is in a high-risk category. The village received the shipment of 20,000 doses of injectable vaccine several days ago because it placed an early order, at a time when estimates of how fast the swine flu vaccine...
pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... Center's adult hospitalist service. As of Nov. 25, there have been 64 deaths and roughly 2,000 Illinois residents have been hospitalized since the global epidemic began, according to latest figures provided by the Illinois Department of Public Health. In Peoria County, where there was one death related to the H1N1 virus, the highest number of reported incidents was in mid-October...
Hunting Archery Duck Deer (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
WSIL TV Numbers in for first weekend of firearm deer season in stateMt. Vernon Register-News“Standing corn was a significant factor affecting hunter access for the first weekend of firearm deer hunting this year,” Illinois Department of Natural …Hunters take 66126 deer during first seasonEvansville Courier & PressNo shortage of deer as firearms season opensBaltimore...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
A tanker truck leaked fuel onto the Stevenson Expressway at Pulaski Road this afternoon after it was involved in a traffic accident on the roadway, according to the Chicago Fire Department. No injuries were reported. The accident happened about 1:25 p.m. and by 2 p.m., Illinois State Police said, the truck had been relocated off the expressway and traffic was moving. However, the entrances...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Tamara T. Hoffman, newly-former chief of staff for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, has been charged in Springfield with making harassing phone calls and texts to a woman who is supposedly involved in a love triangle with a man that both her and Hoffman have been seeing. Police say Hoffman made the calls/texts from her state issued cell phone. Authorities also...
Second City Cop (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
We're sure conventions fleeing the city aren't helping matters any: The jobless rate in the Chicago metropolitan area rose to 10.4 percent in October from 10.1 percent in September and spiked from 6.1 percent in October 2008, the Illinois Department of Employment Security reported Wednesday. The area shed 178,600 jobs over the year, the biggest of all metropolitan areas, followed by the...
pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Unemployment increased again in October in the Peoria metropolitan area and was more than twice what it was a year ago, the latest state figures show. With layoffs at Caterpillar Inc. and some of its suppliers the leading cause, unemployment reached 11.7 percent in the Peoria metropolitan statistical area - the highest since 1983 - the Illinois Department of Employment Security reported...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... abortions. In fact, while serving in the state Senate, Obama opposed legislation to amend the Illinois Abortion Law because the amendment threatened abortion rights and was unnecessary since existing law already required doctors to provide medical care for babies who survived abortions. From the November 25 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program : BECK: Do you remember...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The air was hazy and the ashtrays were full on a recent night at the Crowbar Inc. tavern on the Southeast Side, despite Illinois' nearly 2-year-old indoor smoking ban.Patrons say they like it that way. They're even willing to pay a little extra to light up.Owner said his customers -- smokers and nonsmokers alike -- contribute to a "smoking fund" canister that often sits on the bar, to subsidize...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The fishermen along the Illinois and Indiana shore don't mind the cold when yellow perch flirt with a line like they did today. They don't mind much of anything if the fish are biting. And that's why they're worried about the Asian carp. "We'd sure hate for some of those fish to get in Lake Michigan," said Eddie Hudson, 60, fishing near where the Cal-Sag Channel meets Lake Michigan....
pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Patching on eastbound Interstate 474 at the Shade-Lohmann Bridge takes place beginning Tuesday. From 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, crews with the Illinois Department of Transportation will be patching in the right lane. The lane will be closed to traffic during this time.
