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Election 2012
10:06 am
Fri October 28, 2011

Hoffman drops run for Congress, switches to Ill. House

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Former Ill. state Rep. Jay Hoffman.
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Democrat Jay Hoffman has changed his mind about running for Congress and now plans to seek a seat in the
Illinois House.

Democratic Party officials on Thursday endorsed Huffman's run for the seat held until recently by Tom Holbrook. Holbrook announced plans to step down from the Illinois House after Gov. Pat Quinn picked him to head the Illinois Pollution Control Board.

A month ago, Hoffman had said he'd run for Congress in the newly drawn 13th District.

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Metro East - Pollution
5:28 pm
Tue September 13, 2011

Metro East: demolition of former Chemetco copper smelter moves forward

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Removing one of the large manifolds from the roof of the foundry building at the former Chemetco secondary copper smelter.
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Aerial view of the former Chemetco secondary copper smelter.
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Demolition of the former Chemetco copper smelter took another step forward on Tuesday. The demolition is the start of a long clean-up process for the hazardous Metro East eyesore.

The Illinois EPA is overseeing the dismantling of the smelter buildings, which began last year.

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Southwestern Illinois Levees
10:11 am
Wed August 3, 2011

Judge tosses suit challenging FEMA flood mapping in S.W. Ill.

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A levee in Granite City, Ill.
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A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit three southwestern Illinois counties filed to block the U.S. government from declaring the region's levees functionally useless.

U.S. District Judge J. Phil Gilbert called the lawsuit moot Monday, after the Federal Emergency Management Agency said in court it had no plans to pull the accreditation of the region's levees as part of a levee-mapping effort.

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