After years of operating profits at Community Newspaper and losses at the Herald, Purcell in 2006 sold the suburban chain to newspaper conglomerate Liberty Group Publishing of Illinois, which soon after changed its name to GateHouse Media.

The fall occurred when Yamaoka lost her balance during a basketball game between Southern Illinois University and Bradley University at the Savvis Center in St. Louis on March 5, 2006.

Jones at a 2006 concert in Geneva, Illinois

Nonetheless, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Wildwoods Shore motel district in New Jersey in its 2006 list of America's Most Endangered Historic Places and included the Historic Route 66 Motels from Illinois to California on its 2007 list.

In 2006, Public Citizen, supported by the Illinois Attorney General, renewed its demand of ten years prior for black box warnings by filing a third petition requesting such changes be made.

In 2006, the IWW moved its headquarters to Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 2010, headquarters was moved back to Chicago, Illinois.

Daley and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich held a joint press conference on January 17, 2006 calling for a state-wide ban on the manufacture, possession, and delivery of semiautomatic assault weapons.

Illinois adopted a policy of “ mandated choice ” in 2006, which requires driver's license registrants to answer the question “ Do you want to be an organ donor ?” Illinois has a registration rate of 60 percent compared to 38 percent nationally.

In 2006, the RiverHawks moved into their new home, Road Ranger Stadium, located in Loves Park, Illinois.

Franzwa completed seven books: The Lincoln Highway: Iowa ( 1995 ), The Lincoln Highway: Nebraska ( 1996 ), The Lincoln Highway: Wyoming ( 1999 ), The Lincoln Highway: Utah ( with Jesse G. Petersen, 2003 ), The Lincoln Highway: Nevada ( with Jesse G. Petersen, 2004 ), The Lincoln Highway: California ( 2006 ), and The Lincoln Highway: Illinois ( 2009 ).

Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will counties in the U. S. state of Illinois ; it was voted the second-best place to live in the United States by Money magazine in 2006.

In October 2006, a four-lane bypass to Illinois Route 22 ( Main Street ) was completed, rerouting east-west traffic to the south and east of the downtown area.

In late October 2006, the segment of four-lane, controlled-access Illinois Route 255 ( an extension of Interstate 255 ) between Illinois Route 143 and Fosterburg Road was opened.

On April 25, 2006, three former next-door neighbors who contracted brain cancer filed suit against several manufacturers in the neighboring town of Ringwood, Illinois, claiming that groundwater and air contamination caused their illnesses.

In 2006 the Towanda Area Historical Society partnered with the Towanda District Library to obtain a digital imaging grant from the Illinois State Library entitled “ Capturing Towanda ’ s Past for Eternity ”.

* Interview with Ross biography Barney Ross author Douglas Century on Eight Forty-Eight radio program, WBEZ public radio ; Chicago, Illinois ; March 9, 2006.

Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2006.

The move came as during the 1999 – 2000 season, The WB dropped to sixth place in the ratings behind UPN, losing 19 % of its household audience ; network executives attributed the ratings decline in large part due to WGN-TV's decision to remove WB network programming from its national superstation feed after deciding the network's national distribution was large enough that broadcasting its programming outside of Chicago was no longer necessary, reducing The WB's potential household audience by 10 million homes ; this expansion was due to a series of affiliation deals for the network with station groups such as Sinclair Broadcast Group in the years following The WB's launch, as well as the network launching The WB 100 + Station Group, a national cable-only service that debuted in September 1998 serving areas with a Nielsen market ranking of # 99 and above that did not have enough broadcast stations to support an over-the-air affiliate ( WGN-TV continued to carry WB programming over-the-air in the Chicago market and on cable providers in northeastern Illinois and far northwestern Indiana until the network shut down in 2006 ).

Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, 2006.

His family donated 10 of these modules and the front panel to the University of Illinois CS department in 2006.

* An Evening with Bea Arthur in University Park, Illinois ( March 19, 2006 )

A Video Game Symphony at the Rosemont Theater in Rosemont, Illinois in May 2006.

* Blackstones Police Manual Volume 4: General police duties, Fraser Simpson ( 2006 ).

On March 19, 2006, the International Herald Tribune reported that Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly planned to sue project contractors and others because of poor work on the project.

On 13 June 2006, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and President Paul Biya of Cameroon resolved the dispute in talks led by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York City.

Following the takeover of English football club Aston Villa by MBNA Chairman Randy Lerner in August 2006 and as of September 19, 2006, General Krulak joined the board of Aston Villa as non-executive director, where he quickly earned the approval of the fans by taking the time to post on various Aston Villa messageboards.

AM General continued to build the H1 until it was discontinued in 2006, and was contracted by GM to produce the H2.

In 2006, General Sir Michael Rose revived the call for the impeachment of Tony Blair, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for leading the country into the invasion of Iraq in 2003 under allegedly false justification.

On November 13, 2006, Sun released much of Java as free and open source software, ( FOSS ), under the terms of the GNU General Public License ( GPL ).

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

* XXVIth General Assembly 2006

But in 2006 a divided United Nations General Assembly voted through a resolution that strongly called upon the government of Burma to end its systematic violations of human rights.

* 2006 – General Jacob E. Smart, American World War II figure ( b. 1909 )

General Augusto Pinochet, who died on December 10, 2006, was never brought to trial for the murders, although Townley implicated him as being responsible for them.

The current, and 22nd, Prime Minister of Canada is the Conservative Party's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on February 6, 2006, by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, following the general election that took place that year.

In the General Assembly gathering of June 2006, Presbyterian voting Commissioners passed an " authoritative interpretation ", recommended by the Theological Task Force, of the Book of Order ( the church constitution ).

On June 20, 2006, the General Assembly voted 298 to 221 ( or 57 % to 43 %) to approve such interpretation.

A clear understanding of the effect of what the General Assembly voted upon in 2006 may have to wait until the ecclesiastical courts make decisions on specific cases.

In June 2006, after the General Assembly in Birmingham, Alabama changed policy ( details ), both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups praised the resolution.

In 2006, General Myers accepted a part-time appointment as a Foundation Professor of Military History at Kansas State University.

On 22 March 2006 the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced the indictment of fifty leaders of FARC for importing more than $ 25 billion worth of cocaine into the United States and other countries.

In 2006 the General Consulate of the Sudan, in Sofia, Bulgaria has been upgraded to the rank of embassy.

British examples are At Risk ( 2004 ), Secret Asset ( 2006 ), Illegal Action ( 2007 ), and Dead Line ( 2008 ), by Dame Stella Rimington ( formerly the Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996 ) and The Code Snatch ( 2001 ) by Alan Stripp, formerly a cryptographer at Bletchley Park.

One key offseason trade between the San Diego Padres ' General Manager, Kevin Towers, and the Texas Rangers ' General Manager, Jon Daniels, would prove to have a dramatic impact on their 2006 season.