Illinois

He thought tat Lincoln had the advantage in the war of words in the famous Illinois debates, but was pleased when Douglas won the election.

Buchanan's chief opponent on the statehood bill was a member of his own Democratic Party, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

"Back home in Illinois, I was always hanging out with the same old people and going to the same old places, " Hayes said.

She studied electrical engineering as an undergraduate at Southern Illinois University and for her doctorate at Texas A&M University.

He got out a map and a list of animal shelters in Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana, and began telephoning.

Hughes's grandmother raised him in Lawrence, Kansas, until he was 12, when he moved to Illinois to live with his mother and stepfather.

When I was a teenager growing up in rural Illinois, other teens and I were expected to make our own spending money.

Owens Illinois was given no advance warning of the measure, and new management entered the factory just a few days after it was announced.

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois made a plea for it to be included, even though many lawmakers and the White House are hotly opposed.

By the time I left Illinois in 1960, I had decided what I liked and wanted to do and, just as important, what I wasn't so good at.

A man in northern Illinois found a valuable surprise in his backyard Tuesday afternoon: A duffle bag filled with stacks of $20 bills.

The governor of Illinois ordered the Mormons to leave his state. He said only this would prevent further violence.

The biggest cut to education this year, of 13% per student, is taking place in Illinois, a state with a Democratic governor and legislature.

As most of you know, I am not a native of this great state. I moved to Illinois over two decades ago.

We tramped and climb around all over it, and by and by found a good big cavern in the rock, most up to the top on the side towards Illinois.

In Michigan on Thursday, the Illinois senator told supporters that he had "a gift all picked out" for his wife of 16 years.

Now that situation can be found in New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois and California as well, he said.

Abraham Lincoln was born into a poor family in Kentucky. He grew up in Indiana and later moved to Illinois.

While Illinois continued to resist ratification, the ERA marches became one of the defining efforts of the women's movement.

"It was constructed to hold back the Illinois River so that this ground would not become a flood plain, " he said.

Reacting to the decision, Mr Emanuel confirmed that he would appeal to Illinois' supreme court and said he had no doubt he would prevail.

The governor of the state of Illinois stands accused of trying to sell the Senate seat to the highest bidder.

Think too of the Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, accused of trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat.

After Illinois, Democrats can at least take solace in the fact that Republicans will endure their share of primary chaos elsewhere.

He served for eight years in the Illinois state Senate before voters elected him to the United States Senate in two thousand four.

documents the extent to which the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago have been hotbeds of corruption.

Hours after a former Illinois police sergeant suspected in his fourth wife's disappearance turned himself in, he was released.

The beams have been used on a test railroad bridge in Colorado and several road bridges in Illinois and New Jersey.

Obama plans to have his new running mate start campaigning with him Saturday in Springfield, Illinois.

Great states like California and Illinois appear about to go belly-up. The U.

Senate Democrats reversed their position on Roland Burris and decided to let him take the Illinois seat vacated by Mr Obama.

Meaning : Recently, the president of the Chicago branch of the University of Illinois emphasized the existence of such a problem.

But the long-term challenge for Illinois is to stay within the Supreme Court's limit as the population grows.

On September 23rd Michael Finton was charged with trying to blow up the federal building in Springfield, Illinois.

For a while, they settled in the state of Illinois, in a town they built and called Nauvoo.

Did you know that before the movie industry moved to Hollywood it had its beginnings in New York City and Chicago, Illinois?

The home country of Obama's father has followed the Illinois senator's campaign closely, viewing him as one of its own.

Just a short drive east of Saint Louis, and across the Mississippi into Illinois, is America's first city.

The first written use of the word with that meaning was in a newspaper in Illinois in eighteen thirty-seven.

Scott was sold in Missouri to an army doctor who took him to Illinois and then went into the Wisconsin territory.

David was, in political language, a two-fer: besides managing the overall campaign, he would be a special help in Illinois.

Colby Point was really the name of a road that crept between the hills and valleys of McHenry, Illinois.

With no business background, she wanted an American MBA, and had her eyes set on Kellogg in nearby Evanston, Illinois.

In Illinois, this species occurs in highly disturbed areas, and does not invade high quality natural areas to any significant degree.

near the Illinois River. He sells most to a local fish processor, which exports much of it.

They were living in Chicago, Illinois. He had no job and no money, so he felt he was a complete failure.

The result of economic woes rather than straight-up loopy lending, foreclosures are picking up in states such as Idaho, Utah and Illinois.

A father and son in the mix plant business in Green River, Illinois, had been experimenting with a soft frozen dairy product for some time.

Illinois is sometimes called the Land of Lincoln after one of its most famous residents. That's your answer and that's your "Shoutout. "

Presumably, that means letting California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois default, if it comes to that.

Illinois was one of the states keen to win FutureGen.

Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson welcomed the delegates, but still seemed like he did not want to run for president.

The University of Illinois research team has also been able to add components to a hand drawn circuit, including LED lights and a battery.

THE state of Illinois has a rather crude way of coping with its ballooning budget deficit. It stops paying bills.

On Thursday the president made his latest pitch for the bill as he toured a Caterpillar plant in East Peoria, Illinois.

The scene looks southwest from above Lake Michigan across the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, towards Texas near the horizon.

A levee near Gulfport, Illinois was not able to hold back the rising water of the Mississippi river.

President-elect Lincoln traveled by train from his home in Illinois to Washington, D. C. Along the way, he stopped to make speeches.

The Seventh Circuit courts (in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin) are testing some of these ideas in a pilot project.

We cannot allow the Illinois economy to be held hostage by political timidity. We have to be bold, we have to do things that are difficult.

After the murder of founder and prophet Joseph Smith, they knew they had to leave their old settlement in Illinois.

Born September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois, Addams grew up in an era when women were expected to marry and raise children.

FAITH LAPIDUS: When she was twenty-three, Bessie Coleman moved to Chicago, Illinois to live with two of her older brothers.

Born in 1911 to a poor family in a small town in Illinois, his father was a failed salesman who drank too much.

Over the nine years that Obama worked in law in Illinois, he never handled a trial.

Moving to Peoria, Illinois has overall been a great experience for me.

A first-term senator from Illinois, Barack Obama describes himself as a 'skinny kid with a funny name' and an unlikely biography.

A driver in the state of Illinois caught the incident on camera as the trailer got a clean sweep thanks to an overhead bridge.

Osbaldo is one of a lucky batch to be accepted to Monmouth College in western Illinois.

He says there's been a drop in cattle operations in key Corn Belt states including Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska.

The boat navigated the Monongahela, then followed the ohio to Cairo, Illinois, where it joins the Mississippi.

their marriage went through Obama during the test for political ambition - Senator from Illinois, Senator, to the White House.

Iowa's nickname, the Hawkeye State, is in honor of Black Hawk, an Indian chief who spent most of his life in neighboring Illinois!

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested at his Chicago home on December ninth. Federal officials have charged him with corruption.

In forming his cabinet, Buchanan did not ask for advice from Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

My husband's job required us to move from Illinois to Vermont and our son was upset because he had to leave his friends.

The Midwest state of Illinois, with six nuclear power plants, is home to the largest network of nuclear facilities in the United States.

Twice a year, my family would head to nearby Rockford, Illinois, to spend some time with our friends the Funderburgs.

Richard Widmark grew up in Princeton, Illinois, and attended Lake Forest College, where he studied acting.

Farmers in Illinois, one of the top corn and soybean producing states in the country, are facing the worst drought conditions in decades.

President-elect Barack Obama named the top members of his economic team in a series of announcements this week in Chicago, Illinois.

Clinton contends Obama has a pattern of avoiding difficult issues, beginning with his record as a state senator in Illinois.

Exelon has been a wholesale marketer of wind energy in Illinois, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

This week, the governor of the American state of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, was arrested on federal corruption charges.

Barack Obama was known as a liberal who was not afraid to build bridges across party lines during his term in the Illinois State Senate.

Illinois boasts convenient transportation and developed economy, and is one of the most agriculturally developed regions in the world.

Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. says he is not a target of the investigation that led to the arrest of Governor Rod Blagojevich.

He will direct the Illinois and Indiana district sales offices and coordinate overseas distribution through the company's Singapore office.

Spurred by America's westward expansion, Pfizer opens offices and a warehouse in Chicago, Illinois, its first location outside New York.

Mr. Forester grew up in Illinois and began his portfolio manager career in 1992.

Christopher Kuzawa at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, says there are at least two possible explanations.

It was a square meter of earth, it was 99 degrees, it was the end of summer in Illinois. We used a scalpel.

Illinois was the final stop on a three-day bus tour that also took the president to Minnesota and Iowa.

Caterpillar is booming, and its ecosystem of suppliers across Illinois is "seeing a real trickle-down effect, " he says.

Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, welcomed the Illinois tax hike gleefully, inviting businesses to move across the border.

The largest bank restructuring undertaken by the US, before last year, was that of Continental Illinois, seized in 1984.

In late March, a large dairy near Chicago, illinois became the main suspect in an outbreak of Salmonella cases in a six-state region.

They actually did so through a centralized headquarters out of Illinois, right?

Weller was once a stranded motorist himself. Driving in an Illinois blizzard when he was 16, he got stuck in a snowdrift.

And some doubt the fish will ever make it into the lakes, given their need to spawn in long, fast-flowing rivers like the Illinois.

The legislature was unable to form a quorum to debate the issue after Democratic state senators absconded to Illinois.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will appoint the Obama's successor who will serve the two years remaining in his term.

Illinois allows any parents to buy into SCHIP if their children have been without health insurance for more than a year.

This was to Phil Hare, a Democratic congressman from Illinois who once considered becoming a mortician.

Most of the people I knew growing up in rural Illinois struggled just like my family did.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn's Chief Operating Officer Jack Lavin said selling Thomson to the U. S. Bureau of Prisons would help create jobs.

Katic later moved with her family to Aurora, Illinois. She spent the following years moving back and forth between Canada and the US.

Illinois seems to careen from one crisis to the next.

I grew up in a little town in Illinois.

Then he was sold to a man who took him to Illinois and Wisconsin, where slavery was not legal.

The Senate candidate in Illinois was not only young but he had a remarkable, uplifting story to tell.

Despite his opposition to the war as an Illinois senator in 2003, Obama's reception among troops on the Camp Victory base was rapturous .

I thought about all the volunteers and supporters back in Illinois who had worked so hard on my behalf.

But the newspaper USA Today says Illinois, for its population, is eighteenth among the fifty states in convictions for public corruption.

New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Illinois are all pay-as-you go states with totally unfunded OPEB liabilities.

The lack of a pension fix has led to downgrades of Illinois credit ratings. Cheryl Corley, NPR News.

One of my friends majored in anthropology in a university in Illinois.

For a control, the psychologists assembled a third group, made up of Illinois residents selected at random from the phone book.

While looking for extra cash as a college freshman in Illinois, the supermodel made a living as a corn-shucker at a local fair.

An environmental project in the American city of Chicago, Illinois, could offer ideas for cities around the world.

But his speech would take him form being a little-known politician from Illinois to someone recognized across the country.

Instead, he attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, a smaller school with a division two sports program.

Thank you for your service to the State of Illinois.

At one point, he said, that if Jesus could vote in Illinois, he would cast a ballot against Obama.

In some instances, Illinois state Sen. Obama took action that could have benefited some of his firm's clients.

And then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.

That's tornado alley, Oklahoma, Texas, all the way up to Illinois, Indiana, Ohio.

Yesterday he announced his first White House appointment, Illinois congressman Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.

Kammeyer has so far been able to avoid the Illinois River's wrath .

Wade grew up around Chicago, Illinois and was a stand-out player at Richards High School in Oak Lawn.

We began this journey in the depths of winter nearly two years ago, on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois.

In his concession speech, the Illinois senator told his supporters to prepare for a lengthy campaign.

Lincoln was not the only famous citizen of Illinois.

Also working on this research was Jane L. Swanson, professor of counseling psychology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Four days later, ShoreBank was closed by order of the state of Illinois and Urban Partnership purchased its assets.

The carp have already infested parts of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, driving away many native fish.

A while back, I met a young man named Shamus at the VFW Hall in East Moline, Illinois.

APA was invited to join the brief by the Reproductive Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.

The University of Illinois Extension advises getting bare-root roses as close to planting time as you can.

The alleged plots were against the Dallas skyscraper and a federal building in Illinois.

Although pecans are most plentiful in the southeastern part of the United States, they are found as far north as Ohio and Illinois .

After several TV appearances, he had a second breakfast with other politicians from Illinois.

Political corruption is nothing new to Illinois -- three former governors have gone to jail in the past thirty-five years.

Blizzard warnings were up yesterday in Iowa, also in parts of Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin.

A FEW minutes later Tom was in the shoal water of the bar, wading toward the Illinois shore.

This Daily Eastern News blog post from November chronicles live the first quarter of a Southern Illinois University football game.

Less than a month from graduation day, Theresa Smith of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, had yet to find the right job.

Now, tell me a little bit about what you did when you went to this business fair in Rockford, Illinois. Why did you want to go there?

But, if the storm tracks only slightly more easterly it would increases the odds that the moisture could head straight for Illinois.

The rustbelt, from upstate New York to Illinois, was a particularly barren wasteland for American liberals.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn said another agreement for the U. S. sale of soybeans to China was worth nearly $2 billion dollars.

A former state prison in Illinois has been chosen, but that centre cannot be opened until Congress authorises funding for it.

Harris Perlman is an associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Illinois.

When he came of age, Lincoln moved to New Salem, Illinois, where he held a variety of jobs, served in the legislature, and studied law.

Trace East in Maryland and Trace Central in Illinois, can address the full scope of your test and analysis requirements.

In 1862 President Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, creating the land grant colleges (Purdue, Michigan, Massachusetts, Illinois, etc. ).

InMichigan and Illinois, the Secretary of State's offices perform responsibilities which would be handled by the DMV in other states.

If you're a teacher in Southern Illinois, 25 years of teaching, two master's degrees, that's about your annual pay today.

In Naperville, Illinois , USA, just outside Chicago, there is a new taxi company. And you can take your car home with you.

The automaker recently signed a deal with the UAW that will see production continue at its underutilized Normal, Illinois, plant.

His experience is limited to two years in the Senate in Washington, DC, and six years in the Senate in Springfield, Illinois.

Edith Farnsworth as a weekend retreat, is a platonic perfection of order gently placed in spontaneous nature in Plano, Illinois.

His storytelling powers had first been recognized when he was on the circuit in Illinois.

Another two states, New York and Illinois, had already imposed moratoriums for different reasons.

Mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and chlordane are among the major contaminants found in Illinois fish.

George Hood of Illinois set out to win a berth in The Guinness Book of Records by cycling more than 82 hours on a stationary bike.

In June at Knox College, a small school in Illinois, Obama(who admits he was nervous) delivered his first major speech as a U. S. senator.

When a freshman senator from Illinois came knocking, it was Hughes who provided the customer service.

A few weeks ago, I visited the headquarters of Motorola Mobility in Libertyville, in industrial Illinois.

I come from a city in Illinois which used to have three big steel plants.

chose Illinois over Valparaiso in April He was a three-year starter at Loyola Academy and two-year All Catholic League player.

In a final sprint, Illinois Senator Barack Obama started the day in the key swing state of Florida.

The University of Illinois Extensionadvicesadvises getting bare-root roses as close to planting time as you can.

Laura Berg (Berk) in the Psychology dept. at (Illinois) State University is an expert on the subject.

Besides a degree, long-term friendships, and a way of thinking through problems, Illinois gave me something else: a great wife.

The Democratic Party held its nominating convention in Chicago, Illinois. Peace Democrats were in firm control.

Laura Berk in the psychology department at Illinois State University is an expert on the subject.

Obama had serious conversations with fellow Illinois lawmakers about his idea of running for the Senate.

Plano sits at the western end of Kendall County, where metropolitan Chicago blends into rural Illinois.

And the Illinois researchers suspect that this added stability reduces the need for applying an external charge to do the job.

President Bush and House Speaker Dennis Hastert to campaign together on behalf of two Illinois Republicans in close races.

Goss traveled to Athens with ranking committee member Ray LaHood of Illinois as well as committee staffers and security advisers .

They argue it is unfair that they are currently obliged to pay Illinois taxes on electronic trades that happen out of state.

Many experts consider the Home Insurance Building inChicacoChicago, Illinois to be the firstskyscriperskyscraper.

Bill Richardson says the Illinois senator is a "once - in -a- lifetime leader" who, as president, can bring the nation together.

Emil Jones, currently president of the Illinois Senate, an Obama mentor and Blagojevich supporter, is frequently mentioned.

I got to shore on the Illinois side.

It lay in a strip from the foothills of the mountains to the banks of the Illinois Biver in northeastern Oklahoma.

In a recent interview, Ziliak told me about an employment promotion programme in Illinois in the recession of the early 1980s.

Interactive work of public art featured in Millennium Park, which is in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

But Whipple is making progress, thanks to a heat wave in the Midwest state of Illinois.

Many experts consider the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois to be the first skyscraper.

Roaring along at a speed of 60 miles per hour, it swept clean a path a mile wide across the states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indian.

LJ , glued to the television, watches the same news report back in Illinois.

What is more, public pensions are often protected by a state's constitution, as in Illinois.

The 1918-P Lincoln-Illinois Commemorative Half Dollar was authorized and struck to celebrate Illinois' 100th Anniversary as a state.

An Illinois man left the snowy streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida.

Here at a metal works in Springfield, Illinois, molten lead is beginning its journey, becoming a lethal instrument of destruction.

A former student shot five students to death in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University before committing suicide.

During the campaign of 1860, The Atlantic threw its support behind the candidate from Illinois in a forceful editorial.

He enlisted in the U. S. Navy in Illinois in 1918 before leaving three years later and began working in New York City in 1928.

Also appearing on Fox was the second-highest ranking Democratic senator, Richard Durbin of Illinois.

Mr Gibbs has worked with Mr Obama since 2004, when he worked on his campaign to become a senator for Illinois.

She even ended up receiving a military pension and living at the sailors' and soldiers' home in Illinois as a veteran.

The likely Democratic nominee, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, helped fill sandbags several days ago in his home state.

The Illinois Department of Agriculture assists Illinois food and agricultural companies in exporting their products overseas.

Most weather models assume a westerly track and that the hurricane's moisture would reach west of Illinois.

The fossils were discovered by a team led by Professor William Hammer, of Augustana College in Illinois, and the dinosaur was named for him.

Shower heads were sampled at houses, apartment buildings and public places in New York, Illinois, Colorado, Tennessee and North Dakota.

In the Democratic Party response, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois also used the writings of the Founding Fathers to salute the armed forces.

A town of extreme southern Illinois near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

Thirteen states, including Arizona, Illinois and Florida, have proposed using unemployment funds to pay for leave.

The impeachment trial of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich starts today, but the governor will not be there.

This condition allowed a neophyte senator from Illinois to seize his party's nomination from the jaws of the formidable Clinton machine.

Although the FDIC sold IndyMac within a few months, it took the government seven years to wind down its stake in Continental Illinois.

Churchgoers are remembering the victims of the Northern Illinois University shooting rampage.

Broder, an Illinois native, was familiar to television viewers as a frequent panelist on NBC's "Meet the Press" Program.

The comparisons between the two Illinois politicians are, after all, striking.

the Federal Trade Commission recently reviewed an Illinois bill that would ban retail clinics in stores that sell alcohol or tobacco.

It was also clear that, even in Illinois, Democrats should be anxious.

School violence is in the headlines again with the shootings at Northern Illinois University.

Embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich tells the Associated Press he did nothing wrong and deserves a fair trial.

And as a result it's a very tolerant community , which is different, I think, than something like this, which is in Schaumburg, Illinois .

That Illinois is faring better than Michigan, Ohio and Indiana is small comfort.

the mccook outlaws motorcycle club is established out of matilda's bar on old route 66 in mccook, illinois outside chicago.

The upper Mississippi River in Missouri and Illinois is about to hit its high point.

The Republican assaults in Illinois looked likely to fail, as it did in Oregon.

GER will purchase the landfills, one in Eastern Missouri (Martin Creek Landfill) and one in Southern Illinois (Barton Sanitary Landfill).

The bill would add four new casinos, as well as Chicago's, in southern Illinois and would allow statewide video gambling.

Illinois's legislators, however, say they are not holding a criminal trial. They are merely judging whether the governor abused his power.

A city of west-central Illinois west of Springfield. Laid out in 1825, it has varied industries. Population, 19, 324.

Larry Hickman is the director of the Center for Dewey studies at Southern Illinois University , Carbondale.

The mighty Mississippi River broke through or flowed over the tops of dirt levees in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.

After an impeachment trail that lasted only four days, the Illinois senate unanimously voted to remove governor Rod Blagojevich from office.

Illinois is another traditional manufacturing power that has lost a significant number of jobs to China.

It recently started three new production lines in an area of its plant in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Denis McDonough advises Illinois Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

InMinnesota, Louisiana, California, Florida, Illinois, New York and partsof Iowa, fried wontons are often filled with cream cheese.

The Democratic leadership has raised objections to Burris's appointment by embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Illinois had to offer a high return of nearly six percent on bonds to be repaid by twenty nineteen.

Researchers at the University of Illinois investigated the response of a group of college men and women to a large milk shake before a meal.

Severe thunderstorms were moving into Kentucky and Illinois Saturday, warned the national Storm Prediction Center.

One expert said this might be the most powerful storm to hit Illinois in more than 70 years.

She was joined at the mass rally by her friend Alice Buchholz, also 81, of Barrington, Illinois.

One novel proposal, by Coskata, a firm based in Warrenville, Illinois, is to ferment it into ethanol, for use as vehicle fuel.

already heavily impacted urban tree resources where it has become established in New York and Illinois.

Among them was Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, who refused to sign a document confirming Blagojevich's appointment.

The new boy from Illinois who joined the Senate in 2005 cannot have expected to become president in less than four years.

The convening of the 111th Congressfound Democrats in a tizzy over whether to seat Roland Burris as a senator from Illinois.

Cayce predicted that the safest lands will include Virginia Beach, part of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.