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By Tara Malone and Stephanie Banchero, Chicago Tribune
Taking aim at a loophole used to exclude academically weak 11th-graders from state testing, Illinois education officials said this week they want to create a single standard to determine when students are counted as juniors and therefore must take the exam.
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By Brian Boyer and Jared Hopkins, Chicago Tribune
But only 59 of the 192 sex offenders in Illinois nursing homes -- or less than one in three -- were listed on that online state registry, a Tribune investigation found.
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State senator would consider leasing tollway
By Joseph Ryan, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)
State Sen. Bill Brady, a Bloomington Republican, says he would consider selling the Illinois tollway to a private company if elected to the state's top post, putting him at odds with at least one challenger in the GOP primary for governor.
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Asian carp may have breached barrier
By Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
New research shows the fish likely have made it past the $9 million electric fish barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a source familiar with the situation told the Journal Sentinel late Thursday.
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Group hears how mentally ill fare in nursing homes
By Carla K. Johnson, Quad-City Times
Mentally ill residents of Illinois nursing homes often don't know their rights and some are confined against their will, a lawyer with 35 years' experience in mental health law told a state task force Thursday.
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UIC names new head of economics department
By The Associated Press, Quad-City Times
Professor David Merriman has also been named a professor of economics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and will continue to work as a professor of public administration in the school's College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
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State GOP tones down heat on Gitmo
By Joseph Ryan, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)
Meanwhile, Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, a Springfield Democrat, seized on the attacks as fear mongering as they tried to sell the deal in a series of news conferences around northern Illinois.
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United considers first plane order in more than a decade
By Julie Johnsson, Chicago Tribune
United Airlines is close to placing its first aircraft order in more than a decade and has narrowed its search to two ground-breaking airplanes: Boeing's 787 Dreamliner or Airbus's counterpart, the A350-XWB, sources told the Tribune.
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I-90 could get new ramps at Barrington Road
By Krystyna Slivinski, Chicago Tribune
Village officials have lobbied transportation officials for the last two decades to add two more ramps at the Barrington Road interchange -- an offramp for eastbound traffic and an on-ramp for westbound traffic.
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New trial ordered for man in 1992 Lakeview slaying
By Steve Schmadeke, Chicago Tribune
The Illinois Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Salvador Ortiz for a 1992 gang-related Lakeview slaying that drew attention after Ortiz's mother, who became a community activist and advocate for her son's case, died in police custody in 2004 after being arrested on drug charges.
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