Illinois soldiers meet President Obama in Poland

05/27/11 Associated Press - May 27, 2011 7:34 PM ET SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A dozen members of the Illinois National Guard and President Barack Obama laid a wreath in Warsaw at Poland's Tomb of the...

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Illinois Guard Crew Returning from South Dakota

06/13/11 Illinois National Guard's CH 47 Chinook helicopter and five crew members assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 238th Aviation Regiment based in Peoria will return from South Dakota where they have helped battle flood waters since June 3. The crew members from Bartonville, Chatham, Easton, Elgin and Murphysboro lifted and placed nearly two million pounds of sand and sandbags along the Missouri ...

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Army cancels deployment of area Guard unit

07/05/11 The army has canceled the deployment of an Illinois National Guard unit based in North Riverside.

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