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Centre Basketball: Centre women playing Charthage in NCAA Sweet Sixteen at Mount Union
After winning two NCAA tournament games at home, the Centre College women are taking their act on the road.
The Colonels, who are in the round of 16 for the first time since 2001, will be off to Alliance, Ohio, for a third-round game in the NCAA Division...Tags: NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, College Sports, Illinois Wesleyan University, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Peace on Earth in 2012? Doubtful
Contributing columnistNearly every national or international beauty contest features a question period when some aspiring beauty queen voices her desire for “world peace” in answer to an innocuous puffball question. However, this year, as in the past, world peace...Tags: Barack Obama, Religion and Belief, Vladimir Putin, World War I (1914-1918), Fidel Castro
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Ola Huff Durkin: Sept. 20, 2011
Ola Huff Durkin, 93, widow of Maurice K. Durkin, died Tuesday at Fountain Circle Health and Rehabilitation in Winchester.
She was born in Powell County on Sept. 30, 1917, to the late John and Eva Huff. Durkin was a graduate of Camargo High School in...Tags: Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Chicago, Human Interest
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Obituary: Dr. Bradford Curry
STANFORD — Dr. Bradford Curry, 92, of Stanford died Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, Ky. He was born Jan. 6, 1919, in Uptonville, Tenn., to the late John Milton Curry, M.D. and Mary P. Curry. He...Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Colleges and Universities, Church and State Relations, Baptist
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Rival pension measures could force showdown in Springfield
— Senate President John Cullerton on Monday rolled out his latest proposal aimed at fixing the state's heavily indebted pension system, striking a deal with unions just days after House Speaker Michael Madigan pushed through a plan that's tougher on...
Tags: Government, Linda Holmes, AFSCME, Heather Steans, John J Cullerton
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Illinois Senate passes pension bill, sets up showdown with House
SPRINGFIELD — Senate President John Cullerton today sent his version of pension reform to the House, setting up a high-profile clash with the rival plan Speaker Michael Madigan already pushed through the House. The showdown puts more than 700,...
Tags: Pat Quinn, Government, Lemont, AFSCME, Illinois Supreme Court
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Court ruling aims to reduce diesel fumes at Union Station
A recent federal court decision will require the owner of a downtown building to maintain its ventilation system, improving air quality at nearby Union Station by sucking out diesel fumes from the station's tunnels. The old post office will have to...
Tags: Metra, Government, Health, Heads of State, Amtrak
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Durbin: Ruling should improve air quality in Union Station
Tribune reporterA recent federal court decision will improve air quality at Union Station by requiring the owners of the Old Post Office to maintain its ventilation system to prevent diesel fumes from backing up in the adjacent station, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said...Tags: Metra, Government, Health, Heads of State, Amtrak
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Voice of the People, May. 01
Fresh water threat The Tribune's prominent April 22 editorial urging the Illinois Legislature to hurry up and allow fracking could not have been more heavily spun nor more badly timed ("Put Illinois to work; The stall on fracking is a job-killer")....Tags: Water Supply, Energy Resources, Water Pollution, Natural Resources, Halliburton Company
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Palatine District 15 looking into outsourcing buses
Outsourcing bus service may still be down the road a bit, but based on what was discussed in front of the Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15 board last week, the district will face a large fork in the road. Whether either path leads to...
Tags: Justice System, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Procedures and Tests
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I went down to the crossroads, with books about L.A.
It isn’t every day that you can read from a book and feel the words come to life before your eyes. That happened to me Wednesday morning, at Union Station, at an event designed to make passing L.A. commuters hip to the upcoming Los Angeles Times...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature, Mexico City, Science and Technology, Mexico
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Roger Ebert, my mentor
As I sit here at my computer tonight I realize I'm doing what I saw Roger Ebert do so many times before — stopping everything to crank out a deadline appreciation for an artist who has just passed on. Only this time the artist is Roger. And I...Tags: Chicago Sun-Times, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Roger Ebert, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), London Heathrow Airport
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