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May 17, 2013 - 10:09 a.m.•By Kenneth Lowe - The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.
(MCT) BLOOMINGTON — Prices at the pump may go up this summer, but likely won’t keep vacationers from hitting the open road.
May 17, 2013 - 10:04 a.m.•By Kathy Bergen - Chicago Tribune
(MCT) CHICAGO — Navy Pier, the highly commercialized tourist attraction jutting into Lake Michigan, will take on a more park-like feel under the first phase of redevelopment plans to be formally announced Friday morning.
May 17, 2013 - 9:59 a.m.
(MCT) CHICAGO — Maybe you’ve heard this story before. Or dreamt it.
May 16, 2013 - 10:57 a.m.•By Valerie Wells - Herald & Review, Decatur, Ill.
(MCT) CERRO GORDO — The Bement and Cerro Gordo school boards met jointly on Wednesday in Cerro Gordo to begin discussions on possibly joining the two districts in the future.
May 16, 2013 - 10:55 a.m.•By Geoff Ziezulewicz - Chicago Tribune
(MCT) BOLINGBROOK, Ill. — An elementary school in west suburban Bolingbrook was locked down after school Wednesday because building staff noticed a man walking outside the school, knocking on doors and holding his hand in the shape of a gun.
May 16, 2013 - 10:53 a.m.•By Pam Adams - Journal Star, Peoria, Ill.
(MCT) PEORIA — The area’s largest hospital system is teaming up with the state’s largest health care insurer, gambling they can save money by improving the quality of health care — a proposition that’s driving most of the major innovations and issues in health care.
May 15, 2013 - 11:33 a.m.•By Jim Vorel - Herald & Review, Decatur, Ill.
(MCT) CERRO GORDO — A final look at the firehouse where he served for 29 years was bittersweet Monday night for Randy West, chief of Cerro Gordo’s volunteer Fire Protection District.
May 15, 2013 - 11:31 a.m.•By Matthew Walberg - Chicago Tribune
(MCT) — A Westchester man who spent weeks searching the Des Plaines River found what likely is the body of a missing child allegedly slain by his mother and her boyfriend April 15.
