Sept. 1

• Personality of the Week: Tornado spurs phenomenal volunteer response

• Ill. sales taxes on candy, soft drinks up today

• Community Action uses stimulus dollars to assist unemployed

• Community Action Head Start gets outdoor play grant

• Grace Wibben of Atlanta among 4-H Hall of Fame inductees

• Ousted Blagojevich explains himself in new book

• Grab Your Fork winners, Zonta, Cindy Wendlandt benefit, Gail's Pumpkin Patch, art fair winners and Zion Lutheran Family Fun Fest make Close Up
  By Mike Fak

Aug. 31

• Chill doesn't thwart Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival
  Record crowds pack downtown, airport and Postville

• Logan County tornado disaster recovery and relief update

• Divorce recovery support group begins Sept. 8

• Local event planned to promote development of 'Route 66 Trail'

• Albums of the 2009 Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival:

  • Saturday morning fly-in

  • Saturday draws huge crowd to art fair and the square

  • A glowing success. Saturday's balloon glow

  • Saturday's faces on the square

  • The art fair brought artistry, entertainment and fun to Latham Park

  • Record crowd at airport Saturday night

  • Leaving the ground without a balloon

  • Postville Courthouse yields fun and education

  • Faces at Postville Courthouse

  • A last look at the 2009 Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival

  • Friday's faces at the festival

  • Friday night liftoff

  • Airport prepared for balloon festival: Just waiting for you

  • We have a launch. Balloon festival kicks off under fair skies

Aug. 29

• Friday's faces at the festival -- in pictures

• Friday night liftoff -- in pictures

• Local event planned to promote development of 'Route 66 Trail'

• United Way at Scully Park today. $500 in IGA groceries the prize in this year's annual fundraiser

• Senate week in review: Bomke applauds governor's veto of flawed ethics bill

• U of I faculty want president, chancellor gone

Aug. 28

• City announces winners of art & balloon fest giveaway

• Airport prepared for balloon festival: Just waiting for you -- in pictures

• We have a launch. Balloon festival kicks off under fair skies -- in pictures

• Fall flu season guidance for higher education

• Little girl, big vision: Local 4th-grader works to give to the needy

• Quinn vetoes campaign reform bill

• Balloon fest quiz answers, Tracy Cusey and the YMCA make Close Up
  By Mike Fak

Aug. 27

• City briefs: City treasurer, council cast watchful eye on budget with declining revenues; new council member sworn in; and other matters

• Champion Fitness celebrating a community with strength
  Customer Appreciation Day, Sept. 3

• Quinn names 2 to U of I board, lets 2 others stay

• Lincoln has new plan to address problem properties

• Lincoln man charged with felony murder in toddler's death

• IDOT suspends lane closures over Labor Day weekend

Aug. 26

• Lincoln man charged with felony murder in toddler's death

• Lincoln has new plan to address problem properties

• NWS and Logan County EMA draw timeline of EF3 tornado and its aftermath

• Toddler's death under investigation

• Lincoln bakers 'fair' well at state fair

• Mount Pulaski-Elkhart road construction

• Quinn signs bill to create thousands of new jobs -- in Joliet

• Illinois governor gaining reputation as indecisive

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