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Macoupin Handles Pair Of Crashes

Mar 12, 2010 5:26 pm

CARLINVILLE - Two crashes are being reported by the Macoupin County Sheriff's DepartmentIn the first, Jason E.A. McCuen, 27, of Hillsboro, was cited for improper lane usage following a two-ve...

Kenmore Brand Launches Its First Interactive Live Studio Experience In Chicago

Mar 12, 2010 5:18 pm

CHICAGO, March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Kenmore® brand is heating things up in Chicago with the launch of its first interactive "Kenmore Live Studio," which will bring creati...

Agriculture Futures Mostly Rise On Cbot

Mar 12, 2010 5:07 pm

Agriculture futures mostly rose Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.Wheat for May delivery added 3.25 cents to $4.82 a bushel; May corn rose 0.25 cent to $3.655 a bushel; May soybeans gained 5.5 cent...

Exelon Settles Tritium Lawsuits For More Than $1m

Mar 12, 2010 5:07 pm

Illinois attorney general over leaks of radioactive tritium (TRIHT'-ee-um) from three of the company's plants.According to the Thursday settlement, Exelon will pay $628,000 in civil ...

Red-light Camera Legislation Coming

Mar 12, 2010 5:05 pm

SPRINGFIELD - Lawmakers are moving closer to a compromise on reforming the use of red-light cameras while a complete repeal of the technology appears to face little chance.

Brakes Put On Libertyville Office Uses

Mar 12, 2010 5:05 pm

Libertyville joins Vernon Hills in putting a moratorium on office uses in commercial districts, including the recently cleared Fresh Foods site along Milwaukee Avenue on the south edge of the village.

What To Do With An Empty Storefront A Makeshift Art Gallery

Mar 12, 2010 4:48 pm

As the recession takes its toll on retailing, empty storefront windows throughout the Chicago area are turning into “pop-up” art galleries, the result of an opportune alignment of ...

Chicago's Dwindling Black Firefighters

Mar 12, 2010 4:39 pm

Chicago Fire Department in 1988 hoping to help pave the way for future black firefighters in an agency long plagued by charges of racism. But as Townsend nears retirement, he faces a troubling fact...

Chicago-area Roundy's To Open By Summer

Mar 12, 2010 4:39 pm

By Mike Hughlett | Milwaukee-based Roundy's Supermarkets is slated to finally open its first Chicago-area store in the late spring or early summer, more than three years after it laid out ...

Green Party's Whitney Proposes Alternate Budget

Mar 12, 2010 4:33 pm

(3/8/2010) Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney has released his own budget plan, which calls for some tax hikes, and which he claims will generate a surplus. Whitney released his pro...