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   Rod Blagojevich

   Durbin said the subject is also often talked about in the United States Congress in Washington, D.C. among the Illinois congressional delegation. ... ↑ ImpeachBlago.com website
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   Political positions of Barack Obama

   Obama is reported to have opposed it because of technical language that might have interfered with a woman's right to choose and because Illinois law already required medical care in such situations. ... He said that states have the right to consider capital punishment, but cited concern about the possibility of unfairness in some sentences.
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   Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008

   Obama explained that Illinois had a different system than Congress and that 'present' votes had a different function and use in the Illinois Senate. ... Noting he had not chosen his words well, Obama subsequently explained his remarks, "Lately there has been a little typical sort of political flare-up, because I said something that everybody knows is true, which is that there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my hometown in Illinois, who are bitter."
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   Peoria, Illinois

   Local municipal plans indicate that the city intends to continue its expansion northwest, into an area unofficially considered part of Dunlap, Illinois. ... Peoria District 4 internal traffic — Illinois Department of Transportation site with traffic conditions map and cameras of three Interstate 74 interchanges
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   Springfield, Illinois

   The unique spelling is said to have begun with the founder of the Den Chilli Parlor in 1909, due to a spelling error in the chili parlor’s sign. ... The newspaper was originally founded in 1831 as the Sangamon Journal, and claims to be "the oldest newspaper in Illinois."
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   Godless: The Church of Liberalism

   The world's largest general scientific society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, representing 262 affiliated societies and academies of science and 10 million individuals, has said that "although advocates of Intelligent Design usually avoid mentioning a specific creator, the concept is in fact religious, not scientific" and that efforts to teach "the controversy" are flawed as "there is no significant controversy within the scientific community about the validity of the theory of evolution. ... The Rawstory website claims that she used text taken from the Illinois Right to Life website, making only slight changes for the book.
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   Dennis Hastert

   On June 14, 2006, the Sunlight Foundation reported that Hastert has used an Illinois trust to invest in real estate about six miles (10 km) from the proposed site of the Prairie Parkway. ... Witnesses said these Republicans included former House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
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   Alan Keyes

   It's not something you will achieve through disinvestment." ... Keyes, who opposes abortion in all cases, said in a September 7, 2004 news conference that Jesus Christ would not vote for Obama because of votes that Obama, a member of the Illinois Senate Judiciary committee and a lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, cast in 2001 against anti-abortion legislation (a package of three bills: SB1093, SB1094, SB1095) sponsored by Republican State Senator Patrick O'Malley, that Obama argued was too broad and was unconstitutional.
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   Rockford, Illinois

   As reported in the 2000 U.S. census, the city was home to 155,115 people, while in the 2006 estimate, it is said to have a population of 168,138, making it the third largest city in Illinois after Chicago and Aurora. ... | Website:
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    Joseph Smith, Jr.

    Smith said that he had been concerned about what denomination to join and prayed in a nearby woods (now called the Sacred Grove). ... In April 1839, Smith rejoined his followers who, having fled east from Missouri, had spread out along the banks of the Mississippi near Quincy, Illinois.

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• Rod Blagojevich,
• Political positions of Barack Obama,
• Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008,
• Peoria, Illinois,
• Springfield, Illinois,
• Godless: The Church of Liberalism,
• Dennis Hastert,
• Alan Keyes,
• Rockford, Illinois,
• Joseph Smith, Jr.