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“Things are well-known on the West Coast because they've been studying this for a hundred years with a lot of resources”

The aftershocks that rippled around this city and other parts of the Midwest on Friday were not only seismic but stupefying: That shaking and swaying in the predawn hours Friday morning, Chicagoans asked one ... via HeraldTribune.com

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“You don't feel a magnitude 5 quake in California in nearly as big a region as you do in Illinois”

A massive rock formation 7 miles below West Salem, Ill., moved just an inch or so at 4:36 a.m. Friday, but that was enough to cause the 5.2 magnitude earthquake that broke windows and cracked walls near the ... via WGN-TV Chicago

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“We cannot even borrow on the knowledge they learn on the West Coast”

Construction cranes are seen atop the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago on Friday, April 18, 2008. via Topeka Capital-Journal

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“My brother is in Toledo, Ohio and he felt it up there. Woke us up.”

NEWS 25 has received many emails from people around the Tri-State about the earthquake. via WEHT

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A 5.4 earthquake in Illinois has rocked people awake as far away as Indiana and Ohio, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a large temblor in the Midwest. via KMOV.com

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“Other communities have kept him on year after year on a retainer. We'll see what happens when he goes away. I'm going to let the aldermen make up their own minds.”

Springfield's population now tops 120,000, Mayor Tim Davlin said at his state of the city address Monday. via State Journal-Register

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“I was extremely honored to receive the award from Sigma Beta Delta. Being the first year for the award, I feel even more honored and privileged that I am the recipient”

McKendree RSS News Feed Lebanon , Ill. Sigma Beta Delta, McKendree University's honor society for business, management or administration, awarded its first School of Business Service Award on March 25 to senior ... via McKendree College News Center

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“I ran across an old press and brought it home, started collecting them, then finally moving on to restoring them”

Those invited to Lee Schrunk's home eager to view and operate the historical presses and other printing items he has collected over the years are ushered into a foyer, through a hallway, down the stairs and ... via Statesman Journal

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“An Uncertain Tradition: U.S. Senators from Illinois, 1818-2003”

We know Abraham Lincoln was in communities in Southern Illinois on a number of occasions. via Southern Illinoisan

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“A lot of people during that time would have let the South go”

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." Those words have clear relevance to today's political scene, but they were uttered by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, in June 1858. via Themonitor.com

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