| | 2861: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 September 2 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal (OSFM) today issued a statewide consumer alert to warn residents of potential fire and explosion hazards surrounding the recreational use of alcohol-fueled gel fire pots. While the product is designed as a household decoration or outdoor patio fixture, OSFM's fire safety and prevention officials are concerned about increased dangers associated with the use of this flammable consumer product. | | | | Date Created: | 09 02 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1020**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000037820 Original UID: 18745 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2862: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 September 8 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is encouraging people to get their blood cholesterol checked during September, National Cholesterol Education Month, and take steps to lower it if it is high. High blood cholesterol is one of the major risk factors for heart disease, which is the number one killer of men and women in the United States. Each year, more than a million Americans have heart attacks, and about a half million people die from heart disease according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. | | | | Date Created: | 09 08 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1028**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000037825 Original UID: 18751 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2863: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 September 9 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | As Illinois observes Grandparents Day on Sunday, September 11, the Illinois Department on Aging is reminding families about a program to help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. The Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (GRG) program helps assist and promote awareness of older caregivers and other relatives who are helping raise their familys children. | | | | Date Created: | 09 09 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1036**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000037831 Original UID: 18752 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2864: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 September 12 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Transportation and other state agencies and organizations are teaming up to make Illinois veterans and other residents aware of information pertaining to well-paying job opportunities as highway maintainers. The state is hosting a resource fair in Waukegan, Tuesday, Sept. 13, at College of Lake County's Lakeshore Campus, 1 N. Genesee St. The fair will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. | | | | Date Created: | 09 12 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1039**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000037847 Original UID: 18768 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2865: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 September 15 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Acting Illinois Transportation Secretary Ann Schneider, along with other state and local officials, today broke ground on a $39.6 million construction project to upgrade a segment of U.S. 67 to a four-lane expressway. The improvement project will create 500 jobs, improve traffic capacity, enhance safety and promote economic growth along the corridor. | | | | Date Created: | 09 15 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1055**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000037948 Original UID: 18917 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2866: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 September 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Transportation and other state agencies and organizations are teaming up to make Illinois veterans and other residents aware of information pertaining to well-paying job opportunities as highway maintainers. | | | | Date Created: | 09 20 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1072**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000037949 Original UID: 18945 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2867: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 September 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Transportation and other state agencies and organizations are teaming up to make Illinois veterans and other residents aware of information pertaining to well-paying job opportunities as highway maintainers. | | | | Date Created: | 09 16 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1061**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000037954 Original UID: 18936 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2868: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 September 14 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In observance of September as Healthy Aging Month, the Illinois Department on Aging is urging seniors to prepare themselves for the upcoming flu season by getting their flu shot. Seniors are at increased risk for the flu, especially those who have certain chronic health conditions, so they should make getting a flu vaccine a priority. | | | | Date Created: | 09 14 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1053**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000037960 Original UID: 18897 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2869: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 September 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director Warren Ribley today highlighted $4.6 million in federal funding to make infrastructure improvements in Pullman Park, located on Chicago's south side. Awarded through the Ike Disaster Recovery Program, the funding will be used to make repairs to road and sewer infrastructure leading up to the Pullman Park retail site currently under development, to be anchored by a Walmart supercenter. | | | | Date Created: | 09 19 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1069**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000037976 Original UID: 18940 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2870: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 September 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Insurance today released reports commissioned by the State of Illinois to aid in the process of establishing a state-based health insurance exchange (Exchange) in Illinois. Under federal health care reform the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health care exchanges are being developed in states across the country to help more Americans access and select health insurance. | | | | Date Created: | 09 16 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1066**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000037995 Original UID: 18934 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2871: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 October 11 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Insurance today announced free counseling sessions at more than 25 locations statewide to help thousands of seniors and people with disabilities learn more about Medicare insurance coverage and how to apply for benefits. The Departments Senior Health Insurance Program (SHIP) volunteers will be on site to provide one-on-one assistance during the Medicare open-enrollment season, which this year falls on October 15th through December 7th. | | | | Date Created: | 10 11 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1137**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000038240 Original UID: 19097 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2872: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 October 14 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | State Calls Attention to the Residents of Long-Term Care in Observance of Residents Rights Month. | | | | Date Created: | 10 14 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1147**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000038274 Original UID: 19104 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2873: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 October 14 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS) will host a Career/Job Fair and Disabilities Expo on Wednesday, October 19 from 1-4 p.m. | | | | Date Created: | 10 14 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1149**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000038276 Original UID: 19106 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2874: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 September 27 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | September 28, 2011 is World Rabies Day, a global campaign to spread the word about rabies prevention. With the theme, Working Together to Make Rabies History!, the World Rabies day initiative was founded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Alliance for Rabies Control to bring people around the world together to address rabies control and prevention. | | | | Date Created: | 09 27 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1101**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000038348 Original UID: 19031 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2875: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 October 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Officials with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today joined in the groundbreaking of a new rural health clinic that will help serve Ferrell Hospital in southern Illinois. DCEO provided more than $580,000 in federal funding to the City of Eldorado to build, furnish and equip the new clinic. | | | | Date Created: | 10 18 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1169**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000038392 Original UID: 19137 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2876: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The accountants report that covers the Supplementary Information for State Compliance Purposes presented in the Compliance Report Section states the accountants have applied certain limited procedures as prescribed by the Audit Guide as adopted by the Auditor General, except for information on the Service Efforts and Accomplishments, on which they did not perform any procedures. However, the accountants do not express an opinion on the supplementary information. | | | | Date Created: | 10 05 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000038403 Original UID: 19147 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2877: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | State Universities Retirement System Financial Audit | | | | Date Created: | 12 13 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000038999 Original UID: 19561 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2878: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 October 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department on Aging today hosted the annual ceremony to announce the Senior Hall of Fame Inductees and to present the Unique Achievement Awards on behalf of Governor Pat Quinn. Todays program, held at the Executive Mansion in Springfield, recognized seniors for the special contributions they have made. | | | | Date Created: | 10 24 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1185**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000039055 Original UID: 19644 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2879: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 October 26 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS) today announced the launch of a sustainable transportation option for state employees, with car sharing services through Zipcar, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZIP), the worlds leading car sharing network. This initiative will help support the States goal to reduce overall fuel consumption and promote environmentally-friendly forms of transportation for State business. Employees in the Chicago metropolitan area and Springfield will have access to Zipcars hybrid and other fuel efficient vehicles to meet state business travel needs. | | | | Date Created: | 10 26 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1195**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000039063 Original UID: 19654 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 2880: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 November 1 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois Department of Insurance announce free, one-on-one counseling services in Quincy to help educate Medicare-eligible individuals and their caregivers about available insurance options. The Departments Senior Health Insurance Program (SHIP) is conducting a series of counseling sessions statewide to assist Medicare-eligible individuals with the Medicare open enrollment season, which runs earlier than past years from October 15th through December 7th. | | | | Date Created: | 11 01 2011 | | | | Agency ID: | 1224**11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000039080 Original UID: 19670 FIRST WORD: State | |
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