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Restaurant review: Yum-Yum Hibachi on Wheels
Address: 1800 S. Dirksen ParkwayPhone: (630) 776-4854Website: You can find them on Facebook.Credit/Debit cards accepted?…
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Lincoln Library gets $6,700 to pay off children's overdue fines
A total of 169 children will have their Lincoln Library accounts unblocked after donors this holiday season gave more th…
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Sears to close 103 more stores; Springfield is spared
Two major retailers on Thursday announced additional store closings as they grapple with declining sales and customers w…
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Gander Outdoors to reopen in Springfield
Gander Outdoors, the new name for the outdoor equipment and apparel retailer known as Gander Mountain, will open in Spri…
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Rauner to spend 'several days' at Quincy veterans home
Gov. Bruce Rauner has moved into the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy for several days, a response to reports of ongoing…
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Last of nine friends who wrote to each other for 60-plus years dies
Growing up, Jeanne Wunderle of Mason City always looked forward to the arrival of a thick brown envelope that came in th…
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Bernard Schoenburg: Brauer moves from IDOT to DNR
Former state Rep. RICH BRAUER, R-Petersburg, left the Illinois Department of Transportation at the end of 2017 and this …
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Heywood Banks to headline at Mason City Limits Comedy Club
MASON CITY - Heywood Banks may be the consummate wordsmith when it comes to writing comedy.Banks, who headlines two sho…
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Springfield, others cancel school Thursday due to cold
Springfield Public Schools were among several districts in central Illinois that called off classes on Thursday because …
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Taxpayers give $36M to scholarships on 1st day of new credit
The Springfield Catholic Diocese says it's still waiting to find out how much it will receive from the $36 million pledg…
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Chatham water tower not leaking, despite 'Frozen' look
CHATHAM - While it may look as if Queen Elsa from "Frozen" turned the fence around the water tower in Chatham into ice, …
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'Star' dressing rooms to get spruced up at UIS' Sangamon Auditorium
It has great acoustics and lighting, a good view of the stage from virtually all of its 2,005 seats, and performers like…
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State plans to offer more ways to gain high school equivalency
There could be other ways to earn your high school equivalency certificate in Illinois than passing a test in 2018.The I…
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District 186 schools to be in session Wednesday
Springfield School District students hoping to get an extra day of winter break before returning to school didn't get th…
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SJ-R Business Editor Landis recalled as positive, professional
Tim Landis, the business editor of The State Journal-Register, died unexpectedly early Tuesday at his home in Chatham. H…
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