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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…]

Durbin Announces $4.25 Million in Funding for Go To 2040 Sustainable Community Planning Initiative

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2010.  Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded a $4,250,000 Sustainable Communities Regional Planning grant to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) to help advance its GO TO 2040 community planning initiative.[Read More…]

Durbin, Costello, Shimkus, to Convene Regional Levee Meeting

WASHINGTON, D. C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2010.  U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Congressmen Jerry Costello (D-IL) and John Shimkus (R-IL) announced today that they will convene a meeting to develop a regional plan to address upgrading Southern Illinois levees. Age and uneven maintenance have raised concerns about their future ability to[Read More…]

$45 Million Investment in Southern Illinois’ High-Tech Infrastructure Announced; Will Create 150 Jobs

CARTERVILLE–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2010. Governor Pat Quinn today was joined by state and local leaders at John A. Logan College to announce a $45.4 million project to construct high-speed fiber optic broadband infrastructure in 23 Illinois counties. The project will create more than 150 jobs and is funded by $11.3 million[Read More…]

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