Blagojevich appoints new Illinois Prison Review Board
Governor Rod Blagojevich named a reconstituted 15 member Illinois Prison Review Board. Members will work full time, without outside jobs, reviewing clemency petitions. salaries range from 72 951 to 81 432 per year. Montes named chairman, first Latino to head the body.
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Springfield
Rod Blagojevich
Illinois Prison Review Board
Rebecca Rausch
Blagojevich
Milton A. Maxwell
Carbondale
Nancy L. Bridges- Mickelson
Golconda
Jorge Montes
Chicago
Montes
George Ryan
Colleges help schools meet standards Illinois colleges aid K12 under No Child Left Behind
Illinois colleges distribute about 5.3 million in federal grants to 15 universities to boost math and reading instruction ahead of 2013 2014 benchmarks. Illinois State University announces nearly 750000 in grants to train Decatur and southern Illinois teachers and to recruit Chicago alumni as teachers. ISU funds will expand hands on math instruction for kindergartners to third graders and develop experiment based lessons in Cairo Mount Vernon and other districts.
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Normal
Illinois
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Illinois State University
Decatur
Southern
Chicago
Brenda Roach
Cairo
Mount Vernon
William Hunter
ISU
Marine laid to rest in Patoka
In Patoka Illinois a Marine killed in Iraq is mourned as a horse drawn buggy carries his casket to a rural graveyard. Lance Cpl. Torrey Stoffel Gray 19 died April 11 in Al Anbar Province when his convoy was hit. He served a second tour with the 3rd Battalion 4th Marines from Twentynine Palms. Friends describe his willingness to help the underdog and note he enlisted after Lincoln Challenge. Several Marines at the funeral said he was likely killed while aiding an injured comrade.
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Patoka
Iraq
Southern Illinois
Torrey Stoffel- Gray
al Anbar
Pentagon
Twentynine Palms
4Th Marines
St. Louis
Bucy
Stoffel-Gray
Lincoln Challenge Military Academy
Rantoul
Vicky Silva
Centralia Morning Sentinel
Silva
Torrey Stoffel Gray
Anbar
Calif
Retrial set in the Amy Schulz murder near St. Louis
Jury selection began in Belleville for the retrial of Cecil Sutherland, convicted in 1987 of abducting, raping, and stabbing 10 year old Amy Schulz. Opening statements are planned for May 3 with the eight week trial moving from southern Illinois to Belleville after defense concerns over a fair trial.
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Belleville
Cecil Sutherland
Jefferson County
Amy Schulz
St. Louis
Schulz
Sutherland
Illinois
Hell
Blagojevich backs grants for immigrant citizenship aid
CHICAGO AP Gov Rod Blagojevich urged lawmakers to fund a program in his budget that would give 3 million dollars to neighborhood groups religious bodies community colleges and immigration counselors to assist immigrants seeking citizenship. He called it a modest but impactful investment pending legislative approval.
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Chicago
Rod Blagojevich
Blagojevich
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