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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:30:22 CST
By: Willis Kern
Bloomington-based State Farm Insurance is announcing plans to fill in many of the jobs the company has held open during tight economic times.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:21:57 CST
By: Charlie Schlenker
Nearly two years after the healthcare reform law passed Congress, health care leaders still have no clear sign how implementation will change their business.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:12:20 CST
By: Charlie Schlenker
Illinois is asking the federal government for a waiver on some requirements of the No Child Left Behind education reform law.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:47:46 CST
By: AP
State Farm Insurance plans to hire 3,000 people across the U.S. and Canada and add 900 agents.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:08:07 CST
By: AP
Peoria-based Caterpillar Inc. says it will close its Electro-Motive plant in Canada, where workers have been locked out since the start of the year.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:17:17 CST
By: AP
Former Polish president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa is to receive an award in Chicago from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:41:52 CST
By: AP
Illinois will participate in a multistate earthquake drill next week as part of earthquake preparedness month.
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:21:27 CST
By: IPR's Amanda Vinicky
Earlier this week during his state of the state address, Governor Pat Quinn laid out an agenda that includes tax cuts and increased education spending.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:10:07 CST
By: Charlie Schlenker
House GOP lawmakers continue to target everything but automotive funding in the latest transportation bill. Earlier skirmishes dealt blows to high speed rail allocations.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:17:59 CST
By: Willis Kern
Two female employees of the Bloomington Normal Public Transit System have filed a $350,000 sexual harassment lawsuit against the system and its former manager.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:00:26 CST
By: Willis Kern
A farmer from Danvers has been denied a spot on the Republican primary ballot in the 16th congressional district race.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:02:54 CST
By: Jim Browne
Reaction to this week's decision by the Susan G. Komen Foundation to no longer work with Planned Parenthood's been mixed, according to the Development Director of the Peoria affiliate.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:46:43 CST
By: Jim Browne
A Unit 5 School District bus monitor is accused of raping a little girl at various times over five years.
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:29:43 CST
By: IPR's Amanda Vinicky
Illinois' credit rating is the worst in the nation. The state can't afford to pay billions of dollars it has racked up in bills.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:08:10 CST
By: AP
Two Democratic state lawmakers in Illinois are promoting legislation to place restrictions on oil and gas companies involved in hydraulic fracturing, a process that has drawn concern from environmentalists nationwide.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:29:13 CST
By: Charlie Schlenker
The McLean County Coroner says the cause of the mysterious death of a woman whose body was found in a field on the west side of Bloomington will be left undetermined.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:55:31 CST
By: Charlie Schlenker
Reaction to the speech from one central Illinois Republican lawmaker was dismayed.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:46:15 CST
By: Charlie Schlenker
Mitsubishi sales fell nearly 18% in January compared to the same month the year before. The company with an assembly plant in Normal says the impact comes from models such as the Galant which have ended production.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:14:03 CST
By: AP / Charlie Schlenker
Gov. Pat Quinn used Wednesday's State of the State address to call for ending an Illinois tax on natural gas.
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:19:32 CST
By: Charlie Schlenker
A Bloomington-based engineering firm is expanding in Colorado. The Farnsworth Group says it has acquired a municipal water, wastewater and survey firm called The Engineering Company in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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