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april 1
- Two rock shows announced: hard and classic
- Outdoors Calendar for April 1
- Turkey hunters perfect calls
- Anglers fight the cold at catfish tournament
- George Little: Today is the day for fish tales
- Unemployment benefits extended for thousands in Illinois
- House takes first steps toward enacting challenging budget plan
- Feds reviewing possible state agency workers' comp abuse
- Mayoral candidates fire questions at each other during radio debate
- House kills industrial hemp bill
- Seven companies considering expansion in Sangamon County
- Local unemployment rates falls
- Senate votes to combine offices of treasurer, comptroller
- Rescue squad gets device to aid in grain bin extrications
- Candidates seeking 3 seats on Springfield Park Board
- Quinn to propose changes to workers' comp
- Racial diversity issue for mayoral candidates
- Dave Bakke: No marriage license, but no doubt about their love
- Kirk favors Libya mission but not ground troops
- Attorney's letter indicates UIS coach assaulted players
- Grain prices could jump if crops sag this fall, economist says
- Coffey proposes public works changes
- Area Colleges: LLCC decides to retain women's hoops coach
- Illinois College's Tucker wins college slam dunk contest
- House exempts park program participants from FOIA
- State visitor centers reopen
- Lincoln museum hosting assassination exhibits
- Work starts Saturday for high-speed rail tracks
- No summer shutdown at Normal Mitsubishi plant
- Paper plays April Fools joke on readers
- CACC, Glenwood among entries in radon awareness video contest
- Two accused of being in home without permission
- For the record: April 1
- Letter: Doesn’t make sense
- All-Area Boys Basketball Teams
- All-CS8 Wrestling Team
- Held takes hold of record early in career
- Area boys basketball all-conference teams
- Hamilton’s play loud and clear
- Our Opinion: Boone’s operation of office is ridiculous
- Letter: Volunteer bugler welcome
- Teens accused of fighting
- Springfield woman injured in collision
- Amid Oklahoma rumors, Weber confirms he's staying with Illini
- Rochester girls soccer team finds alternate fuel source
- Letters: Proposal to lift ban a fiasco
- Southern Illinois man accused of pummeling neighbor with skillet
- LLCC Phi Theta Kappa honor society inducts six Chatham residents
- Teen accused of entering 95-year-old woman's home
- Bee busy in win over Highland Park
- Prep Spotlight: Sestak pitches SHG to baseball victory
- State Farm CEO says businessmen must address state spending
- All-Area Girls Basketball Teams
- All-CS8 Boys Swimming Team
- Hamilton: Saukees had extra fan on their side
- King brought home crown for Cougars
- Area girls basketball all-conference teams
- Agnew has motivation for one more run
- All-CS8 Girls Basketball Team
- All-CS8 Boys Basketball Team
- Standout leaves Lincoln as Railers’ most prolific shooter
- Illini Football: Cvijanovic, Heitz vie for Lewis’ spot
- Today's weather: Chance of rain early, high around 55
- Letter: Durbin takes stand vs. fear
- Many local businesses bloom with the onset of spring
- Library film face-off ready for lights, camera and action
- Medley takes the lead at SHS
- Obedience/rally trial set for Saturday
- Get a photo of your pet with the Easter Bunny
- A few thoughts for Illini fans to consider
- Granlund cartoon: Warren Buffett and stains
- Wendy Nugent: Sink your teeth into creature flicks on SyFy channel
- Critics' Cupboard: Tasty Bite Meal Inspirations Barley Medley
- Ask the Vet: Managing medication for your pet
- At the movies with GateHouse
- To do tonight: Cook Dab Fish, watch 'Yes Man'
- Liccar cartoon: Americans and disposable income
- Movie review: ‘I Am’: Psychobabble, dubious science
- Tax content
- David Robson: Lawn jobs for April
- This week in cartoons
- Movie review: Easter-themed ‘Hop’ lays an egg
- Eric P. Bloom: Components of your budget
- Greg Allen: Angels among us
- Music Scene: Hymn for Her has a sound all their own
- Travel: Photographer visits all national parks in America
- Movie review: ‘Super’ is bloody good
- House takes first steps toward enacting challenging budget plan
- Looking Up: Star clusters span the sky (UPDATED WITH LARGE PHOTOS)
- The Readers' Writers: Interview with children’s author Margot Finke
- Movie review: ‘Miral’ flawed by artsy technique, relentless polemic
- Movie review: 'Source Code' interesting, if confusing
- Kirk favors Libya mission but not ground troops
- Bernard Schoenburg: Expect Houston to get another chance
- Philip Maddocks: Military forced to hold pledge drives after its funding is cut
- Looking Up: Star clusters span the sky
- NIE page: April showers
- Photo gallery: Royals vs. Angels, opening day
- Today in the news: Mega Millions winners come forward
- Rolling back state smoking ban would be a first in U.S.
- Mother's Day page: Be jeweled
- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: The opposite of right is impartial
- Morning Minutes: April 1
- May Family magazine
- Tracy Beckerman: Attack of the handy husband
- Kent Bush: I love everything about baseball's opening day
- Charlotte Guedry: What’s so wrong with being a fool?
- Jared Olar: Obama carrying on Bush’s legacy?
- House rejects hemp legalization proposal
- Bruce Weber staying at Illinois
- Movie review: 'Happy' will make you unhappy
- Illinois lawmakers to focus on diabetes
- Get fit for 40: Exercising to lose weight
- Celebrate Cubs Opening Day with our quiz