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Durbin Announces $22.8 Million in TIGER II Funding for Job Creating Transportation Projects in Illinois

WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—October 15, 2010.  Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that three Illinois transportation projects will receive a total of $22.8 million in funding through the Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER II) program.  Nearly $19 billion in bids were submitted nationwide for the $600 million that was awarded[Read More…]

Payday Loan Store Sued After Customer’s Personal Information Allegedly Ends Up in the Trash

Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–October 15, 2010.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against The Payday Loan Store of Illinois, Inc. (PLS), for allegedly failing to safeguard customer data as promised. The Attorney General filed the suit after learning that documents containing customers’ personal information had turned[Read More…]

Governor Quinn Announces Illinois Jobs Now! Capital Funding for South Suburban College

SOUTH HOLLAND–(ENEWSPF)–October 15, 2010. Governor Pat Quinn today announced approximately $2.1 million in Illinois Jobs Now! capital funding for infrastructure and energy-efficiency improvements at South Suburban College. The capital funding will go towards making critical repairs and upgrades at the community college that serves more than 17,000 students in South[Read More…]

The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Behind Bars

From The Economist: THE Nobel peace prize committee’s announcement on October 8th that they are giving the award to an imprisoned Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo, will infuriate Chinese leaders. It may well give extra ammunition to hardliners in China who argue that the West is bent on undermining Communist Party[Read More…]

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