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Mayor Langfelder to propose 4% natural gas tax
Mayor Jim Langfelder has changed course and will soon propose a 4 percent natural gas tax to help with pension payments,…
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Aldermen locked out of the municipal building. The mayor said it wasn't personal.
After an explosive - or as Mayor Jim Langfelder called it, "spirited" - debate during Tuesday's Committee of the Whole m…
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2016 report put Quincy veterans' home plumbing fix at $8M
Engineers told Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration 18 months ago that replacing problematic plumbing at a veterans' home …
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Former Lanphier player among the latest Legionnaires' cases in Quincy
A former Lanphier High School basketball standout who went on to serve in the Air Force and be named to the Springfield …
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Inmates who applauded alleged Chicago cop killer may face reprisals
CHICAGO - Five Cook County Jail inmates who applauded as the man charged with the fatal shooting of a Chicago police com…
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PORTA's Trey Hild reaches state wrestling title match
CHAMPAIGN - Trey Hild and Zach Haley will meet one more time, and one of them will be a state champion for the first tim…
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Can middle-class candidate Daniel Biss defeat millionaires in Illinois?
CHICAGO - In an Illinois governor race that includes a couple millionaires and a billionaire, Daniel Biss likes to tell …
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Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception school to close
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception will close its parish school at the end of this school year, the Diocese of S…
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Glenwood senior starts nonprofit to help poor Indian students improve vision
CHATHAM - If he takes his glasses off, Ishan Agarwall may as well have a blindfold on."I can't read anything 2 feet away…
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This is how Springfield will market itself for Illinois' 200th birthday
With Illinois' 200th birthday happening this year, Springfield wants all eyes on it.HIP Advertising, a local agency, pre…
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Some local school districts were already planning active-shooter drills before Florida incident
Illinois law requires school districts to conduct safety drills to be prepared in the case of a shooting, like the one i…
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Superintendents worried about Rauner's pension shift proposal
Public school administrators who just last summer were ecstatic over a promise of equitable state financing in a revampe…
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Lanphier girls claim first regional basketball title since 2006
Lanphier High School entered the Class 3A Lanphier Regional at 13-13 and as the No. 7 seed in the Lincoln Sub-Sectional …
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Restaurant review: Ritz's
Address: 700 W. Jefferson St. (The original Ritz's Lil' Fryer is at 2148 N. Grand Ave. East)Phone number: 523-7681 (carr…
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Another new case of Legionnaires' disease reported in Quincy
Another case of Legionnaires' disease has been reported at the Illinois Veterans' Home in Quincy. It's the third new cas…
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