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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Illinois Tool Works Inc. on Tuesday said it expects lower third-quarter profit because of a slowdown in its North American business in September. The Glenview, Ill. company now forecasts third-quarter income from continuing operations of 82-86 cents a share, compared to third-quarter adjusted income per share from continuing operations of 84 cents a share. Excluding...
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Personal Injury News (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
A woman living in Illinois filed a lawsuit against Glen-Ed Soccer Club and a volunteer coach on behalf of her daughter who was allegedly inured by an ineligible player. Kristen McCarthy claims that her daughter, Alexis, was injured by a member of an opposing team who shou...
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
Illinois finished the first three months of its budget year in some of its worst financial shape ever, with a mountain of unpaid bills and record delays in payments, Comptroller Dan Hynes says in a new report. Worse, the report said, with the state's economy still faltering, the backlog of bills and payment delays "will experience an even greater increase by the end of the calendar year and...
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Musing Minds (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Today is the last day to register to vote in the State of Illinois. If you are a citizen and will be 18 years old on or before November 4, 2008 you can register to vote now for the election on November 4th. There is no reason that anyone anywhere should have to register any later than four weeks prior to an election. If you’re under 18 now, but will be 18 by the election - register now. If...
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The Illinois Trial Practice Weblog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Andrea and I have taken Schaeffer & Lamere on the road. This month we're in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Details (if you want them) here at Legal Underground.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
A loan modification program that's part of an $8.7 billion national settlement over deceptive mortgage practices will help tens of thousands of borrowers stay in their homes and could be a national model, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Monday.
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Located in the southwest suburban vilage of Chicago Ridge Illinois, between the towns of Oak Lawn and Worth, is this rather architecturally pleasing commuter rail station located on the west side of South Ridgeland Avenue near West 103rd Street. This station was built in the mid 1980's, and replaced an elderly wooden depot that originally served passenger trains on the former Wabash railroad....
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STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
More than 10,800 Illinois families with home loans from troubled Countrywide Financial are about to get some relief.The nation's No. 1 subprime mortgage lender settled a massive fraud suit Monday by agreeing to cut some loan rates to as low as 2.5 percent.Some foreclosures will be suspended while homeowners modify their loans, sparing them from being thrown out of their houses.Some borrowers...
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Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Another "change" you can believe in. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. ( AP ) - As a state senator, Democrat Barack Obama awarded $75,000 in government grants to a Chicago social service organization led by a rabbi who is also his wife's cousin, records show. In 1999, Obama arranged for $50,000 for adult literacy and counseling services offered on Chicago's South Side by a group called Blue Gargoyle. A $25,000 grant...
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Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- As a state senator, Democrat Barack Obama awarded $75,000 in government grants to a Chicago social service organization led by a rabbi who is also his wife's cousin, records show....
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Eddie's Rail Fan Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
I took this photo after work one afternoon, in May of 2007. We are looking east from on top of the Central Avenue overpass bridge at the Chicago city limits, near the towns of Cicero and Stickney Illinois. A three unit set of Norfolk Southern Railroad diesel locomotives, with one from the BNSF Railway coupled on the head end, are seen waiting for clearance to more than likely head to the nearby...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
BURBANK, CA.- Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today announced that Bob Rogers, founder and chief creative officer of BRC Imagination Arts, one of the world's leading creators of educational experiences that engage, teach, and inspire, is among the 30 people from around the world who will receive a special Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial edition of The Order of Lincoln from the Lincoln
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
CHICAGO -- A loan modification program that's part of an $8.7 billion national settlement over deceptive mortgage practices will help tens of thousands of borrowers stay in their homes and could be a national model, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Monday.
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Leftlane (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mitsubishi’s Normal, Illinois, factory, which began as a joint-venture between Mitsubishi and Chrysler (then called Diamond Star Motors), has struggled of late, producing fewer than 100,000 cars annually. Yet over the weekend, Mitsubishi and the UAW agreed to a program that will keep the plant open until at least August 2012 in exchange for some [...]
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following the announcement of the Presidential disaster declaration in Illinois for several counties affected by severe storms and flooding on September 13, 2008
