CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2010. Governor Pat Quinn today announced that 18 Illinois school districts statewide will receive a total of more than $270 million from Illinois Jobs Now! to construct new buildings or expand existing ones. This capital funding will provide vital classroom space while creating approximately 3,700 construction jobs. Chicago[Read More…]
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Governor Quinn Announces $12 Million Investment Package to Support Nippon Sharyo Expansion
ROCHELLE–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2010. Governor Pat Quinn today announced a $12 million state business investment package to Nippon Sharyo U.S.A., Inc., which will support $35 million in private investment, to establish a rail car manufacturing facility in Rochelle. The project will result in the creation of 250 new jobs and retention[Read More…]
Metropolis Man Arrested on Possession of Child Pornography Charge
Springfield, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on October 14, 2010, DENNIS LAUGHTON McCREE, age 57, of Metropolis, Illinois, was charged in a Criminal Complaint in United States District Court in Benton with one count of Possession of Child Pornography. Individuals[Read More…]
Graco Recalls Quattro™ and MetroLite™ Strollers Due to Risk of Entrapment and Strangulation
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2010. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.[Read More…]
Separating Church From State, Fact From Fiction
Commentary By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project When Glen Urquhart told a candidates’ forum last April that Adolf Hitler, not Thomas Jefferson, coined the phrase “separation of church and state,” he probably didn’t anticipate that his bizarre take on history would be disseminated to the world on[Read More…]
Going To Court To Stop Political Attack Ads
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director While the emergence of tea party candidates is getting headlines in this fall’s midterm elections, another trend with free-speech implications has popped up, as well — candidates and supporters going to court, not just the ballot[Read More…]
Why Religious Literacy Matters
Commentary By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project Twenty-first century America is the most religiously diverse society on earth and — among developed countries — one of the most religious. But how much do inhabitants of our faith-saturated land actually know about religion? Not very much, according to[Read More…]
Rich Central High School Announces 2010 Hall of Fame Inductees
Richton Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Rich Central High School will induct 14 into the school’s Hall of Fame. "We, at Rich Central High School in Olympia Fields are very proud of all of our students, present and past," the school said in a press release. "On Saturday, October 23rd we unite to honor some[Read More…]
High-Level Talks Happening Now Aiming for an End to the Afghan War
KABUL, Afghanistan–(ENEWSPF)– From the New York Times: Talks to end the war in Afghanistan involve extensive, face-to-face discussions with Taliban commanders from the highest levels of the group’s leadership, who are secretly leaving their sanctuaries in Pakistan with the help of NATO troops, officials here say. The discussions, some of which have taken place in Kabul,[Read More…]
Ruling Allows Openly Gay Men, Women to Sign Up to Join Military
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–Oct. 19, 2010 – Openly gay men and lesbian women now can apply to join the military, Defense Department officials said today. The department issued guidance Oct. 15 to process paperwork for openly gay men or lesbian applicants. The instructions come from a California federal judge’s decision that the so-called[Read More…]
