<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Illinois</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/il?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><description>Illinois</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[The Family Channel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32728-2005May3.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32728-2005May3.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ While 4-year-old Michael spins circles around the toy-filled living room and 4-month-old Evan bounces in a baby seat, Mom and Dad peer at the screens of nearly identical silver PowerBook computers. Maria Sokurashvili and Jeff Steele, home for the evening after work, are tending to their other baby  --  the online parenting support group called DC Urban Moms.]]></description><author> Shannon Henry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago Zoo's Last Elephant Dies After Arriving in Utah]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32846-2005May3.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32846-2005May3.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  CHICAGO, May 2  --  The last of three African elephants brought to Lincoln Park Zoo in 2003  --  over the objections of animal activists  --  died soon after arriving at a Utah zoo with a warmer climate and elephant companions, officials said.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATION IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18528-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18528-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Black Student Charged In Hate Mail Case <br>    BANNOCKBURN, Ill.   --  A black college student was charged with a hate crime Tuesday for allegedly mailing racist threats to fellow minorities on campus, apparently because she was homesick and wanted to convince her parents the school was dangerous, authorities said.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[14 Alleged Chicago Mobsters Indicted]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16429-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16429-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CHICAGO, April 25  --  Fourteen reputed Chicago mob figures were indicted Monday on charges of plotting at least 18 murders, including the 1986 slaying of the crime organization's top man in Las Vegas, Tony "The Ant" Spilotro, who was buried alive in a cornfield.]]></description><author> Mike Robinson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[COAST TO COAST]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12547-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12547-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Illinois Lawmakers Aim to Get Students to Take a Load Off <br>Illinois students need to lighten up.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters Target Minority Students]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10336-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10336-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DEERFIELD, Ill., April 22  --  Authorities at a Christian university near Chicago moved dozens of black and Hispanic students to a hotel for their safety, and police stepped up patrols on campus Friday after three people received threatening, racist letters.]]></description><author> Carla K. Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Group Plans Urban Development for Tysons]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7443-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7443-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Developers and civic leaders hope to have Tysons Corner expand beyond existing limits and become more like a traditional downtown.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Think Tank That Thought It Could]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6367-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6367-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This  is what juice looks like on a Wednesday night.]]></description><author> Marcia Davis</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Honors President Lincoln]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2518-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2518-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Speaking to an audience assembled for dedication of the $90 million museum here memorializing the president often called "the savior of the nation," Bush said, "to understand the life and the sacrifice of Abraham Lincoln is to understand the meaning and promise of America."]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Va. Tour, Gardeners Think Small]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59612-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59612-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Roaming the side yard of one of Alexandria's oldest homes yesterday, Jeff and Mary Wagner Ginger were hunting for tips for their townhouse garden back home in Chicago.]]></description><author> Rosalind S. Helderman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nancy Olson; Hill Aide and Lobbyist]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55094-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55094-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nancy Moyer Olson, 75, who died of congestive heart failure March 25 at a care center in Roanoke, was a legislative aide to two Democratic U.S. senators and later became a lobbyist on trade issues. She also was a former actress and recovering alcoholic who briefly aspired to be a nun.]]></description><author> Adam Bernstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twinkies, 75 Years And Counting]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46062-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46062-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[C'mon, admit it. You eat Twinkies. You love 'em.<br> Maybe you feel a little guilty about it, but you're not alone. Americans spent $47 million on them in the past 12 months.]]></description><author> Candy Sagon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Role of U.S. Cardinal Sparks Protest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42581-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42581-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ROME, April 10  --  American victims of sexual abuse by priests said Sunday that the Vatican was "rubbing salt into our wounds" by honoring Cardinal Bernard F. Law, who was designated to celebrate a special Mass of mourning for Pope John Paul II on Monday.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams  and Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATION IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32891-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32891-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   White Supremacist Gets 40 Years <br>   CHICAGO  --   White supremacist Matthew Hale was sentenced to 40 years in prison Wednesday for trying to have a federal judge killed  --  the same judge whose husband and mother were murdered five weeks ago by a deranged man with no connection to Hale.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judges Ask Congress For More Protection]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32375-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32375-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Worried after recent attacks, federal judges urged Congress yesterday to provide more protection, including $12 million for security systems in most of their homes.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill. Pharmacies Required to Fill Birth-Control Prescriptions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19703-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19703-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich issued an emergency rule Friday requiring pharmacies to fill prescriptions for contraceptives without delay.]]></description><author> Kari Lydersen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protocol Officer and Artist David Waters Dies at 81]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11386-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11386-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[David Waters, 81, a protocol officer under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson who also was an accomplished artist, died March 20 at the Washington Community Hospice. He had Crohn's disease.]]></description><author> Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prostate Cancer Effort Enlists Barbers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5416-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5416-2005Mar27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Grass-roots group enlists doctors at medical centers across the country to train black barbers in advising their customers about the disease.]]></description><author> Kari Lydersen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATION IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2366-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2366-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Adoption Error Enables Mother to Regain Baby <br>    CHICAGO  --   A 6-month-old girl at the center of an interstate custody battle was reunited with her biological mother after a judge ruled that the adoption agency in Utah mishandled the paperwork.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATION IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61786-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61786-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/il</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 4:04:01 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Prison Journalist Faces $126,000 in Court Costs <br>   NEW ORLEANS  --   Former prison journalist Wilbert Rideau sought a plea agreement that would have avoided his high-profile murder trial in January. He may have to pay about $126,000 in court costs, anyway.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>