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Struggling Cahokia schools could go without sports
In this March 8 photo, Cahokia's Darius Austin, right, scrambles for a loose ball with East St. Louis' Travon McCray during a high school basketball game in Cahokia. The Cahokia School District 187's board unanimously agreed Monday, April 8, to a tentative plan to eliminate dozens of teaching jobs and go next school year without an athletics director, coaches or extracurricular activities. The school district is blaming shortcomings in state funding for the plan. Superintendent Art Ryan said a final decision in the 4,000-student district won't come until the state signs off on a budget. AP Photo
CAHOKIA (AP) — A southwestern Illinois school district is blaming shortcomings in state funding for its tentative plan to eliminate dozens of teaching jobs and go next school year without an athletics director, coaches or extracurricular activities.
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First lady to visit school impacted by violence
CHICAGO (AP) — First Lady Michelle Obama is coming to Chicago to address a conference on youth violence, after which she will visit a high school hard hit by violence.
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Marble fragment of Lincoln sarcophagus on display
SPRINGFIELD (AP) — A fragment of the marble sarcophagus that once contained Abraham Lincoln's coffin is on display at the Lincoln Tomb Historic Site in Springfield.
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2 charged in drive-by shooting of 14-year-old
CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County prosecutors have charged two alleged street gang members with first-degree murder in the shooting death of another alleged gang member.
Continued ... - Peoria street gangs warned: 'You're next'
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1-man Illinois police department robbed
ESSEX (AP) — The one-man police department in the town of Essex in northern Illinois has been robbed.
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- Ex-Ill. lawmaker elected to succeed Jackson Jr.
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- House GOP leader in favor of gay marriage
- 'Mummy bandit' robs 5th Chicago bank
- Voters to choose Jackson Jr.'s House successor
- Giant, head-shaped pots to go up on Michigan Ave
- Ill. powwow lacks money, on hold for 2013
- Robot hot among surgeons but FDA taking a new look
- Aurora cracks down on texting-while-driving
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