Posted by Illinois Channel 1 month ago.
from Ameren
Peoria (June 19, 2008) Flood waters pose a special hazard to boaters in flooded areas, the Ameren Illinois Utilities warned.
Boaters need to exercise extreme caution when moving through areas that have overhead electrical lines because...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
From the Offices of U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Dick Durbin
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Dick Durbin today released the following statement after levees breached at Lima Lake and Indian Graves this morning. Tomorrow, President...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
From the Office of Governor Rod Blagojevich
SPRINGFIELD Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich today will visit the Quincy area to tour flooding along the Mississippi River, after two additional levees broke early this morning. The Lima Lake levee in Adams County...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
From the Office of U.S. Representative Peter Roskam
WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Peter J. Roskam (R-IL) this week sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach expressing his concern regarding the security of our foo...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
From the Office of U.S. Senator Dick Durbin
WASHINGTON, D.C. Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), with Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), last week introduced legislation that will help lower gas prices by compelling big oil companies to beg...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
From the Office of Governor Rod Blagojevich
CHICAGO Looking ahead to the enormous needs communities across Illinois will face as they recover from devastating flood and storm damage, Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today asked U.S. Congressional leaders...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
From the Illinois Works Coalition
CHAMPAIGN - A bipartisan group of legislators joined together with university officials, local business leaders and union members at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign to call on the General Assembly to pass ...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
From the Illinois Department of Transportation
SPRINGFIELD The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), in coordination with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA), announced that the Mississippi River crossings are closed at Gulfport ...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
From the Office of Governor Rod Blagojevich
SPRINGFIELD Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich today activated an additional 400 Illinois National Guard troops to assist with flood efforts along the Mississippi River, bringing the total troops engaged in the flood...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
From the Office of U.S. Senator Dick Durbin
[WASHINGTON, DC] United States Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) chaired a hearing today to investigate how excessive speculation in the oil market may be contributing to the historic run o...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
from Sen Durbin's press office,
June 16, 2008
Flooding in Illinois
Our colleagues from Iowa and Minnesota have spoken movingly about the devastation their states have suffered as a result of the massive flooding in the Midwest. The floods also ha...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
from Sen. Durbin's office, June 16, 2008 [WASHINGTON, D.C.] U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today commended a decision by the Acting Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Robert Sturgell, to raise the hourly flight capacity at O...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
by KRISTEN MCQUEARY, of the Southtown Star
From the start, Alexi Giannoulias struck me as earnest yet naive.
He was a 29-year-old nobody in Illinois politics who decided to run for state treasurer, diving head first into a snake pit. I admired his tena...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
from the Obama 08 Campaign, June 15
Good morning. Its good to be home on this Fathers Day with my girls, and its an honor to spend some time with all of you today in the house of our Lord.
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus closes by ...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
I'm just watching the programming that's remembering Tim Russert.
What a shock. He was the best newsman in America. I always admired how he could ask the tough questions, but stay a gentleman. Respect the individual as a person, and respect the ...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
from the Sweeney Campaign, June 13, 2008
Sweeney Calls on Kotowski to Support Impeachment Proceedings
Says Kotowskis Backing of Emil Jones Emboldens Blagojevich
Mount Prospect, IL Fed up with the fighting in Springfield, Mike Sweeney, Republica...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
from James Carlini, June 12, 2008
CHICAGO As another Chicago-area hospital calls it quits, what are the remaining ones doing to keep a solid health care network in the Chicago metropolitan area Whats happening to major area hospitals as they thro...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
from the Attorney General's office,
Chicago Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced the settlement of an 18-state investigation of tax resolution firm J.K. Harris & Company and its two affiliated companies, JK Harris Financial Recovery Sys...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
from the Illinois Green Party, June 12 This week, the State Officers Electoral Board decided to remove four anti-war Green Party congressional candidates from the November ballot, two of whom served during the Iraq War. The removed candidates are Iain A...
Posted by Illinois Channel 2 months ago.
CHICAGO, IL - Senator Obama released the following statement today in response to the news of the trade deficit increase.
Today we learned that the trade deficit jumped to its highest level in 13 months. This is not an accident. This is yet anothe...
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