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By Bruce Japsen and Jason Grotto, Chicago Tribune
An Illinois Supreme Court decision Thursday puts nonprofit hospitals on notice that they must provide an adequate amount of charity care to patients or risk losing significant tax exemptions.
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By Suzanne Sataline, The Wall Street Journal
An Illinois Catholic medical center isn't a charitable enterprise and must pay property taxes, the state's highest court ruled Thursday in a case that has been closely watched by hospitals nationwide.
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U.S. Supreme Court may rule on Asian carp case
By Nathan Hurst, The Detroit News
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court could decide as early as today if it will consider a lawsuit filed by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox seeking immediate closure of the locks near Chicago to keep the invasive Asian carp out of Lake Michigan.
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Plan could let schools opt out of new rules
By Mike Riopell, The Southern Illinoisan (Carbondale)
Under legislation approved Thursday, local schools wouldn't have to implement some new rules made by the state unless the state also sends money to pay for the changes.
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Sexting bill passes Illinois Senate
By Michelle Manchir, Chicago Tribune
Students under 18 who use computers or cell phones to share nude photos of their peers would earn little more than a scolding under a measure the Illinois Senate approved Thursday to address the "sexting" phenomenon.
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Budget cuts a 'devastating blow' for local governments
By John Sharp, Peoria Journal Star
PEORIA, Ill. -- Gov. Pat Quinn's budget proposal to reduce local governments' share of the state income tax could potentially eliminate 22 full-time Peoria County jobs and cut $3 million out of the city of Peoria's budget, local officials warned Thursday.
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Pekin set to consider fiscal plan
By Matt Buedel, Peoria Journal Star
PEKIN, Ill. -- City Manager Dennis Kief initially balked at the prospect of passing a fiscal year 2011 budget that relies on more than $700,000 in state income tax disbursement that could evaporate under the budget proposal advanced by Gov. Pat Quinn last week.
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District 86 weighs cost-cutting moves
By Leslie Williams, Peoria Journal Star
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Cuts to supplies, travel and training workshops are some of the cost-saving measures District 86 school board members weighed Thursday night in an attempt to plug what could be up to a $3 million gap in next year's budget.
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Dueling rallies offer opposing views on health care bill
By Tim Mitchell, The News-Gazette (Champaign)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Supporters and opponents of health care legislation held dueling rallies on the sidewalk along Fox Drive outside Rep. Tim Johnson's office Thursday evening in anticipation of an upcoming vote by the House of Representatives.
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Dental management contract focus of questions
By Dean Olsen, The State Journal-Register (Springfield)
Only weeks before aides to Gov. Pat Quinn said they would review and potentially re-bid all state contracts exceeding $1 million a year, Quinn's administration renewed a $255 million contract with the company that manages the state's dental program for Medicaid recipients.
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More hearings sought on Great Lakes levels
By Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A coalition of environmental groups worried about dropping water levels on Lakes Michigan and Huron is asking the U.S. and Canadian governments to expand a planned series of public hearings on the issue.
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Suburban residents seek lt. gov. nomination
By Timothy Magaw, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)
Stevan Kreger worked in at a plastic-coloring plant for more than 30 years until his job was outsourced to China. Now, the 60-year-old South Elgin native has his sights set on a new job - lieutenant governor of the State of Illinois.
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Lincoln Developmental Center's future remains foggy
By Kurt Erickson, Bloomington Pantagraph
The Lincoln Developmental Center, closed since 2002, is being marketed as a possible site for warehouses or office space, as well as a residential treatment center for youth programs or veterans with Alzheimer's disease.
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Illiana Expressway plan signed into law
By Christin Nance Lazerus, Gary Post-Tribune
The Illiana Expressway bill garnered Gov. Mitch Daniels' signature on Thursday. The law will allow the state to enter in a public-private partnership to build and develop the Illiana Expressway.
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Lawmakers look to save fire districts money
By John Patterson, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)
Fire protection districts would no longer be required to publish proposed ordinances in newspapers under a law the state Senate approved that instead utilizes Web sites.
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GOP plots strategies to nullify health bill
By Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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An alternative to 'alternative' assets
By Gina Chon, The Wall Street Journal
Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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NIU probes motives, response to 2008 shootings
By Jodi S. Cohen, Chicago Tribune
Steven Kazmierczak wanted infamy. He wanted video game-style bloodshed. And perhaps most of all, he wanted to punish Northern Illinois University, the "surrogate family" that had kept his demons at bay but that he felt ultimately abandoned him.
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ICC approves smaller tuition increase
By Dave Haney, Peoria Journal Star
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- An initial vote to raise tuition at Illinois Central College by $8 per credit hour failed Thursday, ending with a stalemate and at least two trustees remarking how students and families are struggling financially.
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Teachers safe for now in Huntley Dist. 158
By Larissa Chinwah, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)
While school districts across the area are reducing staff in order to make up decreased revenue from the state, the Huntley Unit District 158 school board shaved a further $2 million from its draft 2010-2011 budget without laying off teachers.
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The empire strikes out
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
 New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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Non-profit Ill. hospital must pay property tax
By Stateline.org Staff
TODAY'S TAKE: In a closely watched case, Illinois’ highest court Thursday determined that a not-for-profit hospital had to pay property taxes, because it didn’t offer enough charity care to qualify for a tax exemption.
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