Chicago pols control almost all seats of power in Illinois.

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Illinois-based company Renew Power has said it has already come up with a fuel cell compatible with mobile phones, by using formic acid, the chemical sprayed by black ants on the attack.

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Illinois law gives the governor sole power to appointment interim senators.

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Democratic Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois says his party acknowledges its new power has its limits.

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Illinois senators voted 59-0 to remove him from power in January.

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The company is also now checking for possible tritium leaks at all 10 of its nuclear power plants across the country, six of them in Illinois, three in Pennsylvania, and one in New Jersey.

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Unlike existing technologies, these new devices developed by researchers at the University of Illinois weigh nearly nothing, require no external wires and operate on tiny amounts of power.

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Members included Ford Motor, Amtrak, DuPont, Dow Corning, American Electric Power, International Paper and Waste Management, along with the states of Illinois and New Mexico, seven cities and a number of universities.

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As a member of the Illinois Senate, where he has served since 1993, he fought tax increases, advocated greater competition in the power utility industry and supported "tort reform" legislation.

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It dates back to 2004, when American Needle, an Illinois-based hat maker, brought an antitrust case against NFL, claiming the league was using its monopoly power to muscle it out of its fair share of revenue for caps it made bearing NFL logos.

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