Collinsville Illinois

Plan to expand gambling in Illinois advances - Pantagraph.com
Bloomington Pantagraph
In addition to allowing slots at tracks like Fairmount Park in Collinsville and Quad City Downs in East Moline, it would allow slot machines at Midway and O'Hare airports. State Sen. Mike Jacobs, D-East Moline, questioned why other Illinois airports ...

Belleville News Democrat
Illinois Senate approves gambling expansion, allows gaming at horse-racing ...
Belleville News Democrat
It also would allow slot machines at horse-racing tracks, including Fairmount Park in Collinsville, and at Chicago's airports. Fairmount Park's racing secretary, Bobby Pace, said the track is hopeful this year's bill wins the approval of the governor ...

Illinois Endangered Historic Places 2013: Muddy Waters Home Among State's ...
Huffington Post
Found over the entrance door of the Miners' Institute Building in Collinsville, Ill. The Miner's Institute is among this year's "Most Endangered" historical sites as designated by preservation group Landmarks Illinois. (U.S. Dept. of Labor). The South ...

Belleville News Democrat
Musial or Veterans? Illinois House approves name for new bridge
Belleville News Democrat
John Shimkus, R-Collinsville. Missouri lawmakers also have taken steps toward a Musial name. The Missouri House in April voted 147-0 in favor of a measure naming the bridge after Musial. The vote sent the bill to the Missouri Senate, which endorsed a ...

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Former Muddy Waters home on list of Illinois' 10 most endangered places
Chicago Defender
The home is among the 10 most endangered historic places in Illinois according to the nonprofit Landmarks Illinois, which announced the list Tuesday, April 30, 2013, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Matt Cole via Landmarks Illinois) ... century Newcomb ...
Bridges, blues, mausoleums make state endangered listChicago Tribune
Landmarks Illinois announces ten endangered historic structuresSTLtoday.com
Group Releases 2013 List of Endangered Historic Places in IllinoisWSIL TV

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Illinois Man Nearly Strikes Sullivan Officer In U-Haul, Arrested
Mysullivannews
According to reports, Kevin Brutto, 46, Collinsville, Ill., was traveling from Tulsa, Oklahoma back to Illinois when the incident occurred. He was also believed to be intoxicated on drugs. Brutto, who was talking out of his mind initially, according to ...

KSDK
Illinois Department of Transportation reopens some roads after flood water recedes
KSDK
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (KSDK) - The Illinois Department of Transportation announced Tuesday IL 100 at Joe Page Bridge in Calhoun County, Il 3 in Grafton, and IL 3 at Rockwood in Randolph County have reopened to traffic. The following roads remain closed ...

Belleville News Democrat
Collinsville's Historic Miner's Institute on list of top 10 endangered ...
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COLLINSVILLE • The Miner's Institute in Collinsville, once a social hall and gathering place for coal miners and later a theater, has been named by Landmark Illinois one of the state's most endangered historic places. Landmark, a preservation group ...
Can it be saved? Miner's Theater on list of endangered historic sitesBelleville News Democrat

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St. Louis, Metro East now Mexican cartel capitals of Midwest
KSDK
Wigginton said the vast majority of the cocaine came into the Metro East and St. Louis area from Chicago through interstates 55, 57, 70 and 64 to stash houses in Granite City, Fairmont City and Collinsville. "They're able to get it right to the street ...

Belleville News Democrat
St. Clair County Board replaces two members who have resigned
Belleville News Democrat
The board announced the vacancies and approved the appointments during the same meeting on Monday. McIntosh resigned his post representing Washington Park effective May 20, and Gomez resigned his seat representing Fairmont City and part of Collinsville ...

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Belleville News Democrat
Singh allegedly distributed to confidential source a drug that was misbranded, under the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; and knowingly possessed with the intent to distrubute a drug that is misbranded, under the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic ...

Illinois teen dies in crash after argument over marijuana
WQAD.com -- Quad Cities News & Weather from WQAD
About a half-hour after the argument began, the two vehicles went into Collinsville, Illinois and then into Fairmont City where they crashed at about 4:30 a.m. Monday, April 29, 2013. Both vehicles rolled several times. An 18-year-old Caseyville ...

Could Congress close Scott Air Force Base?
Fort Worth Star Telegram
John Shimkus, R-Collinsville. "If we don't reform our entitlement programs," Shimkus said, "discretionary dollars will continue to get cut, which puts Scott more at risk." Shimkus repeated a lament that's being heard a lot these days. It's a lament ...

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Boy genius: 5-year-old Gus Dorman inducted into Mensa
Yahoo! News Canada (blog)
The Collinsville, Illinois, youngster is obsessed with black holes and astrophysics — and is struggling to enjoy his current kindergarten curriculum: "They teach me stuff I already know." "He's so far advanced, he is bored and he gets into trouble ...
Five-year-old US boy has IQ of 147BigPond News

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KSDK
Critical injury in Fairmont City crash
KSDK
Fairmont City, Ill (KSDK) - Police officers from Fairmont City and accident reconstruction experts with the Illinois State Police are working together to determine the cause of a two-vehicle crash on Collinsville Road early Monday. Just before 5:00 a.m ...
One dead, one sought in Fairmont City after crashSTLtoday.com
Argument Over Missing Pot Leads To Crash That Kills Teenkplr11.com

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KSDK
One Killed In Crash; Collinsville Road Shut Down
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FAIRMONT CITY, IL (KTVI) – A high speed car chase has left an eighteen year old Caseyville woman dead and a convicted felon on the run in Fairmont City, Illinois. Police say the entire incident stemmed from an argument over a bag of marijuana. It began ...
Critical injury in Fairmont City crashKSDK
One dead, one sought in Fairmont City after crashSTLtoday.com
Argument Over Missing Pot Leads To Crash That Kills Teenkplr11.com

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Chicago Tribune
Moses Harrison, 1932-2013
Chicago Tribune
During his tenure as chief justice of the state high court, he appeared on the TV news show "60 Minutes" with Mike Wallace to discuss the state's death penalty, which Illinois lawmakers eliminated in 2011. He also appeared in the movie "Too Flawed to ...

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GEMS shines girls' light on math, science
Alton Telegraph
The American Association of University Women-Illinois, Piasa Council, which includes Alton, Jersey and Calhoun counties, and Wood River branches, organizes and sponsors the GEMS conference. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority also sponsored this year's ...

Tom Kacich: Brown learning realities of House
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Brown, in his second term in the House, is sponsor of HB 2496, a bill to provide state incentives to help lure a $1.2 billion fertilizer plant to Tuscola, a project that would be an economic boon to East Central Illinois. Iowa also is competing for the ...

Top 10 schedule, results
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Alton Marquette (17-6) vs. Columbia (17-4) at Alton Marquette, 1 p.m Today. 5. Highland (0-0) vs. Collinsville (12-6) , 12 a.m Today. 6. Waterloo (15-6) vs. South Central (0-3) at Centralia, Illinois, 1 p.m Today. 7. Borgia (10-4) def. St. Charles (5-8 ...

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