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Nine years after it was closed due to mold and financial problems, state officials are asking potential developers to submit proposals for reopening the Eagle Creek Resort at Lake Shelbyville.

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Andrew McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday. Saturday, Washington, D.C., tried to make sense of the latest developments in the seemingly never-ending Russia saga.

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If you're picking up a glass of Guinness this St. Patrick's Day, savor it while pondering this story from 1917, when Ireland's famous stout was cause for true celebration: It saved lives.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Friday even though he was on the doorstep of retirement and receiving his pension after two decades of service to the bureau.

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Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner called Thursday for the construction of an “ultra-modern facility” in Quincy to replace a state-run veterans’ home beset by fatal Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks.

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Voters in Monticello School District 25 said “no” to a bond referendum to build a new high school in 2014 and 2016. Now, the school board is asking them to consider a more modest proposal to improve school buildings.

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CLARENCE, Ill. (AP) — A former sheriff's deputy and purported ringleader in the bombing of a Minnesota mosque emerges in court documents as a sometimes-threatening figure with anti-government views who also wrote books and attracted others into his shadowy group.

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When two big meat companies – Tyson and Cargill – recently invested in a lab-grown protein start-up, some said Americans’ love affair with meat had cooled. Actually, it’s quite the opposite. The U-S is expected to eat a record amount of red meat and poultry this year. 

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The three Democratic front-runners in next week’s primary election for governor went for each other’s throats in their final debate on WTTW-TV last night.

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Students across the state participated in a national school walk-out on Wednesday. A sophomore at the University of Illinois Laboratory High School, Salma El-Naggar, said she helped organize a demonstration at the Urbana school to memorialize the 17 people who were murdered by a gunman last month during a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida. The demonstration was also intended, she said, to spotlight the need for more gun control measures.