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• Informational meetings to prepare airport neighborhoods for balloon fest 2005

• Workers' compensation reform reduces business costs, increases worker benefits

Articles from the past week

Friday

• Communities gather to look at Logan County's future
  Economic development and planning strategies laid out for all to see

Thursday

• Tonight, Logan County Regional Planning Commission invites all citizens to hear plans on how your community may grow or be improved

• Insurance company CEO responds to city

• Lincoln Public Library District receives donation for large-print books

• Memorial Day weekend to bring the largest safety belt enforcement ever in Illinois

• Gov. Blagojevich encourages Illinoisans to 'Light the Way Home' for missing children

• World's largest blue catfish expires after capture

Wednesday

• Road construction plans unfolded for the new Sysco warehouse/distribution center

• Human remains discovered south of Springfield

• Bomke announces survey results

• World's largest blue catfish caught in Illinois waters near Alton

Tuesday

• Lincoln City Council and new fiscal year budget off to a good start

• Professional emergency responders and citizen heroes honored during Emergency Medical Services Week

• Illinois Correctional Industries Spring Product Show May 25 and 26

Monday

• State historic sites open on Memorial Day

• Federal Communications Commission to mandate Internet-based phone providers offer 911 services

Saturday

• Lincoln Heritage Days getting bigger and better

• LaHood makes case for keeping 183rd in Springfield

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