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  • Flight attendant helps land plane in Chicago

    Officials say a flight attendant who has a pilot’s license helped land a plane at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport when a co-pilot became ill.

    June 15, 2010

  • Blagojevich trial resumes

    Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial is back under way with his former chief of staff, Alonzo Monk, still on the stand.

    June 15, 2010

  • Quinn to deliver State of the State address SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn faces a tough job in delivering his first State of the State address.

    January 13, 2010

  • Dozens back in prison after state parole crackdown By JOHN O’CONNOR

    AP Political Writer

    SPRINGFIELD (AP) — More than 100 parolees released from prison early are back behind bars because of an extraordinary crackdown by a Quinn administration stung by denunciations of a secret program that freed 1,700 inmates weeks ahead of time.

    January 13, 2010

  • Three new Illinois swine flu deaths SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Illinois health officials are reporting three new deaths and 67 new hospitalizations linked to the swine flu virus.

    January 8, 2010

  • Icy hazards persist through U.S., deep into South By KATE BRUMBACK

    Associated Press Writers

    ATLANTA (AP) — Snow and blustery winds blew into the already-frigid East on Friday and drivers as far south as Georgia were urged to stay off icy roads.

    January 8, 2010

  • Racial disparities seen in state swine flu deaths CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois officials say swine flu hospitalization and death rates for blacks and Hispanics are higher than the rates for whites.

    December 4, 2009

  • Winter’s here, yet Illinois corn harvest drags on CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Ken Beck isn’t much of a golf fan, but the 48-year-old corn farmer was a little relieved to have Tiger Woods’ troubles to discuss.

    December 4, 2009

  • 5 staffers at Granite City school district in trouble GRANITE CITY, Ill. (AP) — There's plenty of misbehavior at schools in the small southern Illinois community of Granite City, but it's the staff — not the students — who keep getting into trouble.

    December 3, 2009

  • Eastern Illinois soldier dies in Afghanistan GEORGETOWN, Ill. (AP) — Friends and relatives of U.S. Army Sgt. Kenneth Nichols say the eastern Illinois soldier died Tuesday in Afghanistan. He was promoted just a day earlier.

    December 3, 2009