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Southern Illinois University President Glenn Poshard says the school has met a budget milestone.He says SIU has been able to ...
Two local colleges have announced a cooperative agreement to provide training in the emerging field of high volume oil and ga...
Illinois transit advocates are proposing a plan to fix the state's deteriorating roads through a new tax that would raise...
Williamson County will build a new $266,000 morgue rather than renew a lease on a current site on federal property.The co...
Sen. Dick Durbin says Congress must act to stop interest rates on some student loans from doubling.The rate hike is scheduled...
An unexpected windfall of $1.2 billion has given the state's service providers a moment of relief. But those agencies...
More than $1 billion of the state's overdue bills are being paid off.Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday signed legi...
Nearly 4,500 civilian workers at Scott Air Force Base will begin taking an unpaid day off in a month for the rest of the fisc...
Illinois lawmakers faced a jam-packed agenda and a midnight deadline for session's end. A look at how they fared by Frida...
The Illinois House has approved a measure to regulate high-volume oil and gas drilling in the state.Lawmakers voted 108-9 Thu...
The House has approved a plan to have Illinois' public institutions of higher education begin picking up retirement costs...
Two Illinois college tuition investment programs have seen their assets grow substantially in the past two years.State Treasu...
The Illinois Senate has bucked the governor’s proposed education cuts in passing a pair of budget bills.The governor wa...
State records indicate that high-volume oil drilling already has begun in Illinois, even in the absence of regulations.An ene...
The Democrat-controlled Legislature is expected to move forward with a new state budget, despite Republican concerns they'...
House and Senate Democrats have agreed on a proposed Illinois budget that would keep education funding at the same level and ...
Illinois House members say Senate President John Cullerton's pension-reform proposal saves at most only 60 percent of wha...
The Johnson County Board of Commissioners has passed a resolution supporting a statewide moratorium on high-volume oil and ga...
The unemployment rate in Illinois is down slightly.The April rate, announced today (Thursday), comes in at 9.3 percent, down ...
A new complication is popping up while Jefferson County officials try to recover Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detainee...
State universities and community colleges have agreed to gradually pick up their own retirement costs under a preliminary dea...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A new audit has found that less than half of the money from the state Road Fund has gone towar...
A Chicago-based watchdog group says Illinois must have a long-range plan to address its shaky finances, including the nation&...
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says control towers at five small airports in his home state of Illinois, including the Southern Illino...
The SIU Board of Trustees, which has been disfunctional the last few months, finally acted on several items. Joe Ragusa has m...
Gov. Pat Quinn says income tax revenue for 2013 will top forecasts by $1.3 billion. He says he'll put the money towar...
Gov. Pat Quinn has rejected a plan to increase electric rates by roughly $70 million, a proposal ComEd says would have he...
A St. Louis supermarket chain is facing a potential class-action lawsuit in Illinois related to a security breach affecting u...
A Carterville auto-dealer is named in a lawsuit by Attorney General Lisa Madigan.In the lawsuit, Madigan says RTO Auto Sales ...
A new state report that Illinois coal once shunned for its high sulfur content is enjoying record demand overseas.The Illinoi...
An Iraq War veteran is walking 165 miles from his home near Chicago to his alma mater in eastern Illinois to raise money for ...
Tired of paying more state taxes and hearing only about overdue bills and a pension crisis?Now you can do more than cry, &quo...
For days, Texas Gov. Rick Perry's $80,000 ad campaign has been urging Illinois companies to relocate to his state. No...
Unemployment held steady in Illinois in March at 9.5 percent with 629,000 people looking for work.State Department of Employm...
Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka says the ever-long list of vendors waiting on payments from the state means taxpayers ...
A spokesman for the Illinois National Guard and Air National Guard says more than 1,300 of its civilian employees will be tak...
You think a car averaging 40 miles per gallon is fuel efficient? Think again.A team of University of Illinois students has de...
The USDA says Illinois farmers expect to plant 5 percent fewer acres of corn than last year even as growers across the countr...
Illinois' unemployment spiked for a second straight month in February, hitting 9.5 percent. But state officials say the i...
SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- Illinois Senate President John Cullerton says hiring a private company to operate the state's lottery...
CHICAGO (AP) -State officials say the Illinois Lottery's private operator faces a $20 million penalty because it fell...
Hands of Hope - Marsha Shotten and Ann Moore 03-18-2013 For An Evening of Hope and Laughter in April
Marsha Shotten and Ann Moore stop by to discuss An Evening of Hope and Laughter with comedian Tim Lovelace. Sat, April 13th a...
Backers of a measure to regulate high-volume gas and oil drilling in Illinois have agreed on the fees and extraction taxes th...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says he supports a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing over legislation calling for reg...
Illinois is settling a federal securities-fraud charge that it misled investors about the health of its pension system.Gov. P...
Gov. Pat Quinn says proposed legislation to end some corporate tax breaks is the best way to help pay down $9 billion in ...
One area of state government that's not facing cuts under Illinois's worst-ever budget is its support for passenger r...
Unemployment is rising in Illinois.The state Department of Employment Security says Illinois unemployment rose to 9 percent i...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has released her annual list of the top 10 consumer complaints, and complaints about s...
The top Republican in the Illinois House and the Democrats' chief pension-reform negotiator are teaming up for another ru...
A report from the Chicago-based Civic Federation predicts that Illinois' backlog of unpaid bills will reach nearly $2...
The federal sequester could impact Illinois in a variety of different ways, according to a list President Barack Obama’...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court is issuing a new set of rules addressing how mortgage foreclosures ...
CHICAGO (AP) — More than 135,000 high-cost Illinois patients who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid will be as...
A top House Democrat wants to make a state income tax hike permanent and raise the retirement age to get Illinois out of its ...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is giving himself a little breathing room on proposing a state budget.The Democrat signed legislation...
Gov. Pat Quinn wants taxpayers to take advantage of a newly expanded tax credit.The Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit provide...
An environmental policy group has identified hundreds of Midwest manufacturers that stand to benefit from the web of high-spe...
The Illinois House has approved a measure that transfers money saved from prison closures, including the closure of the Tamms...
An Illinois House committee has approved additional funding for state programs in a plan that takes advantage of new money fo...
The office of Illinois' attorney general says it generated more than $1.1 billion in state revenue through litigation...
A monthly measure of Illinois’ economic performance – the University of Illinois Flash Index – is at its hi...
Les O'Dell is the new director for the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce, and he says Carbondale is ready to embrace more bu...
Continental Tire of the Americas plans to invest $129 million at its Mount Vernon plant in an expansion project that will...
The Illinois State Board of Education has made it tougher for students to be considered proficient on state tests.The board v...
The governor is not panicking over a $1 billion shortfall in funding for various state programs.The comptroller this week...
The state of Illinois will invest $9 million in infrastructure improvements at 19 airports, including airports in Marion,...
Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka says Illinois is running out of money for child welfare, workers' compensation and services...
Illinois' budget crisis is expected to worsen after lawmakers failed to enact pension reform last week, and residents wil...
A major credit-rating agency says it's relabelingIllinois' financial outlook to "negative" from "stabl...
A man suspected of robbing two banks in Mount Vernon has been found in Florida.37 year old Willie Franklin of Urbana is suspe...
Police in Mount Vernon are looking for a suspect in the robbery of a bank.The robbery occured shortly after 11 a.m. at the Fi...
Authorities are trying to determine what caused a train derailment that spilled a few thousand gallons of ethanol.No injuries...
CHICAGO (AP) — One of the sponsors of anewproposal to fix Illinois' pension crisis says the plan would save the sta...
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois' unemployment rate dipped to 8.7 percent in November as the economy added 16,400 jobs.Preli...
CHICAGO (AP) — Former White House chief of staff Bill Daley says he's seriously thinking about running for Illinois...
ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Musical instrument maker Conn-Selmer Inc. is closing an Illinois plant and moving its work to nort...
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Corn Marketing Board is donating $20,000 to a proposed children's museum ...
Paying for portions of the state’s capital program may come down to closing loopholes, according to Gov. Pat Quinn.Reve...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A new study paid for by the Illinois Chamber of Commerce says the New Albany Shale formation in ...
MATTOON, Ill. (AP) — More than 150 employees of a telecommunications company in eastern Illinois have gone on strike as...
DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Drug and medical device maker Baxter International says it will buy the privately held Swedish c...
The City of Marion released a statement following recent approval of aggregate energy.The city is not engaged in the business...
CHICAGO (AP) - ExxonMobil Oil Corp. has agreed to investigate the cause of an oil-mist release at a northern Illinois refiner...
CHICAGO (AP) - Investigators who look into complaints against Illinois doctors are being warned layoffs will start in January...
The City of Marion released a statement following recent approval of aggregate energy.The city is not engaged in the business...
A traveling program to ensure Illinois Veterans know what services are available to them as well as their families and potent...
ZION, Ill. (AP) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it will update the public on decommissioning activities at the shutt...
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