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Five people were killed and at least seven others were seriously wounded in shootings throughout the city over the Halloween weekend.

Kathleen Diane Goode Hawkins, 54, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, at her home.

The Port Clinton Area Harvest Festival returned this year and was a success. It was the product of hard work by a small number of volunteers and generous contributions and we hope they help again in 2010.

William D. Chamberlain and Mary Ann Eastham were married October 2, 1959 at First Christian Church in Clinton, Illinois.

Among the things for which Clinton is known outside its borders, one probably isn't well known by most of the residents living within: Clinton's city-owned Dr.

Sneed hears venture capitalist/philanthropist J. B. Pritzker, a top Dem fund-raiser, is being wooed by top Dems to enter the race for Illinois state treasurer.

CLINTON, Ill. -- Can you get flowers for clunkers? Well, as a matter of fact, you can't. But a small-town florist in central Illinois had been fielding hundreds of calls a day from people asking about cash for clunkers after General Motors began advertising a toll-free cash-for-clunkers number that's nearly identical to the shop's toll-free number.

DEKALB – The 2009 DeKalb Corn Fest is set to take flight this weekend. The Corn Fest will be held Aug.

DeKALB – For area residents, this weekend is all about one thing: Corn. “It started the festival and it needs to stay with it,” said Bryan Klatt, chairman of the DeKalb Corn Fest Chuck Siebrasse Corn Boil.

Ron and Mary Ellen Brown, the first of the two Operation Pride awards selected for the month of August.

The government might be offering cash for clunkers, but it's not sending flowers.

Tour DeWitt, a resurrected bike tour of the county, was deemed an overwhelming success, and Mayor Ed Wollet honored its organizers at Monday's City Council meeting, bestowing his Mayor's Community Partners Award upon them.

Rockford's roads are getting better, one summer at a time. "We have a whole host of projects that we've put into action this year.

Intake Upgrades The Ford performance experts at Anderson Ford Motorsport have introduced a new EFI intake manifold for short deck small-block Ford engines based on the Professional Products Hurricane, and it's called the Anderson/EFI Hurricane.

A while back, I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wanted me to try to trace the origins, using The Yale Book of Quotations and more recent researches by me.

With several of its schools bursting at the seams, Elgin School District U46 is considering attendance boundary changes for the 2010-11 school year, according to a report released at Monday night's school board meeting.

Blogs Read Andrew Willis' Streetwise blog regularly to follow up-to-the-minute developments on the day's market-moving news Tuesday, July 7, 2009 07:34 AM Another day, another 7 U.S. bank failures Andrew Willis M onday was a day of pain in U.S. banking, as seven financial institutions closed their doors, the largest number of bank failures in a ...

Saturday, July 11th Three Rivers Opening Day Parade 6:30 a.m. till 1:00 p.m. W. Wayne Street from Thiem to Broadway W. Main Street from Runnion to Clinton Van Buren Street from Superior to Berry Fairfield Avenue from Superior to Wayne Ewing Street from Wayne to Main Harrison Street from Wayne to Main Calhoun Street from Wayne to Superior Berry ...

Consultants for the Village of Montgomery have identified a one block area in the village's downtown as the site for a proposed Metra commuter rail Park-n-Ride. The preliminary Park-n-Ride study, unveiled by consultants during a public meeting last week at village hall, calls for the Park-n-Ride to be located on a block bounded by Main, Clinton, ...