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• The Dispossessed: 'This Is Like a Prison'   [MSNBC, Newsweek]

• New Orleans police superintendent resigns   [CNN]

• More Illinois National Guard soldiers sent to Louisiana

• Tips for planning for the next emergency

• Illinois State Police District 9 places first in chiefs' challenge

Articles from the past week

Sept. 27

• Bush tours Rita-damaged Texas, Louisiana   [CNN]

• FEMA plans to reimburse faith groups for aid   [MSNBC]

• Illinois emergency personnel to debrief on hurricane response

• Tips for planning for the next emergency

• Reported elder abuse up 84 percent in Illinois since 1993
  While the rates of many other crimes have decreased, reported cases of elder abuse are rising

Sept. 26

• Louisiana bails out from Rita, Katrina   [CNN]

• Recovery begins in areas hardest hit by Rita   [MSNBC]

• State and private employers helping to find jobs for hurricane victims in Illinois

• Photos from Rita's aftermath   [USA Today]

• Gov. Blagojevich invests nearly $15 million into making Illinois coal more competitive

Sept. 24

• Hurricane Rita to challenge American resolve

• Rita headline links:

  • Rita storms ashore near Texas-Louisiana border  [CNN]

  • New Orleans' 9th Ward floods
    Nagin: 'This nightmare just continues for us'  [CNN]

• Lincoln/Logan Hurricane Relief Office opens downtown

• Gov. Blagojevich sends Illinois Army National Guard helicopters, crews to Texas to support Hurricane Rita efforts
  Illinois stands ready to receive Hurricane Rita evacuees

Sept. 23

• Youth alcohol arrests alarm community

• Rita headline links:

  • Gulf Coast braces as storm nears  [BBC]

  • Bus fire 'kills 24' Rita evacuees  [BBC]

  • Latest Rita numbers  [CNN]

• Illinois Department of Agriculture prepared to approve temporary and emergency grain storage

• Heroics from Hurricane Katrina

Sept. 22

• U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary units prepare for Hurricane Rita

• Katrina makes top 10

• State of Illinois employees return home after helping Hurricane Katrina victims in Louisiana

• Gov. Blagojevich breaks ground at Union Square Park -- final component of Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum complex

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