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An Illinois Senate committee has approved a concealed carry proposal which gives Illinois State Police the power to grant or ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Donald Trump finished testifying at a civil trial in Chicago and immediately blasted the 87-year-old wom...
CHICAGO (AP) — A candidate for the chairmanship of theIllinoisRepublican Party who supports gay marriage has pulled out...
House Speaker Michael Madigan is moving forward with a plan to require local school districts to pay their share of teacher p...
Graduation Ceremonies for SIU are set forthis weekend.SIU Chancellor Rita Cheng says it is a busy time for the 3,600 students...
The Illinois Senate has approved a refined gambling expansion plan adding five new casinos including one in Chicago.Senators ...
An Illinois House committee is endorsing a plan by Speaker Michael Madigan to tackle a Goliath-sized public-employee pension ...
Illinois Senate legislation allowing the carrying of concealed weapons appears less permissive than touted but it's sched...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is holding fast to his position that legislation calling for the carrying of concealed weapons should...
A scheduling change means both former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi Jackson, will be sentenced on the same ...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has released his 2012 federal and state income tax returns, which show the only money he earned was h...
Gov. Pat Quinn says any governors trying to poach Illinois companies are all just "showboating."At least five gover...
Another governor is trying to lure away Illinois companies.Florida Gov. Rick Scott sent a letter to Illinois' top 100 com...
The Illinois Senate has approved legislation to allow school districts to use cameras to catch people who don't stop for ...
An Iraq War veteran is walking 165 miles from his home near Chicago to his alma mater in eastern Illinois to raise money for ...
The leader of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus says the fate of a measure that would authorize same-sex couples to marry...
Tired of paying more state taxes and hearing only about overdue bills and a pension crisis?Now you can do more than cry, &quo...
State Treasurer Dan Rutherford says Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a point in picking out Illinois' financial problems, but Il...
The rain is gone for now but the trouble it caused last week is still here.While many roads are reopening all over suburban C...
The FBI has arrested an 18-year-old suburban Chicago man who U.S. authorities say was planning join an al-Qaida-affiliated gr...
For days, Texas Gov. Rick Perry's $80,000 ad campaign has been urging Illinois companies to relocate to his state. No...
The Illinois Liquor Control Commission has started a new underage drinking awareness program.The program was announced Thursd...
Nearly 250 physicians are calling on Illinois lawmakers to legalize the use of marijuana for patients with serious illnesses....
Two men are charged with felony counts of aggravated battery after a man was shot in the face with a BB gun.19-year-old Joshu...
Gov. Pat Quinn says he has reached out to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency after deadly explosions near the finish li...
State regulators and pro-gambling lawmakers are cautiously pledging to try working together to address differences that have ...
Four men have been arrested for firing a BB gun at someone while driving in Carbondale.Carbondale Police were sent to the 800...
Another piece of unfinished business in the decade-long investigation of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration has...
More than 1,000 students selected earlier this year will get the chance to spend time outdoors and help preserve Illinois'...
A House Republican leader has announced his support for legalizing gay marriage in Illinois.Rep. Ed Sullivan Jr. of Mundelein...
Acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert's funeral will be at a Catholic church in downtown Chicago.Ebert's funeral is sched...
Federal officials say recent arrests for alleged income tax crimes are a good reminder to the public to file taxes on time an...
Gov. Pat Quinn says the death of an Illinois state trooper is a reminder of the dangers sworn officers face every day.The Sta...
Chicago officials want to make it tougher on thugs packing weapons.But legislation to increase prison time for illegal gun po...
The Federal Railroad Administration has chosen Illinois to lead a group of five states hoping to buy high-speed rail locomoti...
Illinois State Police are teaming up with Anheuser-Busch to post billboards encouraging designating a sober driver.Officials ...
Illinois State Police are teaming up with Anheuser-Busch to post billboards encouraging designating a sober driver.Officials ...
The Illinois House has rejected a measure that would require $1 million in liability insurance for people carrying concea...
CHICAGO (AP) -State officials say the Illinois Lottery's private operator faces a $20 million penalty because it fell...
Scientists from Illinois have found a rare, 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda.The Field Museum in Chica...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says he supports a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing over legislation calling for reg...
House Speaker Michael Madigan says passing a gay marriage bill out of the Illinois House will be "very difficult."M...
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...
An increase in physicians' license fees will now move to the Governor’s desk.The 65-49 vote Thursday would make a t...
SIU Board of Trustee member Roger Herrin is denying claims he wants to reduce the minority population at SIU.This comes after...
The NAACP is now weighing in on the SIU Board of Trustees saga.The group’s representatives from Alton, Edwardsville, Ea...
The Illinois House has approved a measure that would prohibit using cell phones while driving.The 64-46 vote Friday moves the...
The Illinois Senate hasn't provided a single vote in favor of three appointments by Gov. Pat Quinn to the Southern Illino...
A House committee has endorsed allowing Illinois gay and lesbian couples to marry.The House Executive Committee voted 6-5 lat...
A report from the Chicago-based Civic Federation predicts that Illinois' backlog of unpaid bills will reach nearly $2...
An Illinois House committee could vote Tuesday on a measure allowing same-sex couples to marry.Chicago Democratic Rep. Greg H...
Gov. Pat Quinn announced the appointments of three new SIU Board of Trustee members. Sandra Cook, Dr. Melvin Terrell and Lee ...
The Elkville Fire Department will see some more money as part of a federal grant.Six fire departments across Illinois will sp...
The candidates vying to replace former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. are making their final push before Tuesday's election....
CHICAGO (AP) — A coalition of Illinois residents opposed to high-volume gas and oil drilling is criticizing Gov. Pat Qu...
CHICAGO (AP) — Attorney General Lisa Madigan says she hasn't decided whether to appeal a court ruling striking down...
CHICAGO (AP) — More than 135,000 high-cost Illinois patients who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid will be as...
Chicago’s police chief says that anyone who donates to political campaigns that support the second amendment is guilty ...
The prospect of prison now looms over former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife after they agreed to plead guilty to ch...
A Purple Heart recipient from Illinois will be the guest of Assistant U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Dick Durbin at the State of t...
An environmental policy group has identified hundreds of Midwest manufacturers that stand to benefit from the web of high-spe...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is seeking public input on concealed carry of firearms and gun safety at two hearings ...
Gov. Pat Quinn is telling lawmakers that they hold the solution to solving the state's fiscal crisis, particularly Illino...
An Illinois Senate committee has approved legalizing gay marriage for the second time in a month.The Executive Committee vote...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon is inviting new lawmakers from across Illinois to work with her on a concealed carry law.A federal appe...
The US House of Representatives voted to pass the No Budget, No Pay Act yesterday that set the issue of the debt ceiling asid...
The U.S. Supreme Court has dashed a Chicago-area atheist's final legal bid to challenge the use of state funds to renovat...
The severe weather this past weekend played a role in two fatal car accidents.The first one was reported shortly before 3 a.m...
Gov. Pat Quinn has filed an appeal over a Cook County judge's ruling that the state must pay wage increases promised to w...
House Speaker Michael Madigan was re-elected as the Speaker of the House yesterday, and he says Illinois' pension crisis ...
Flu is on the upswing in Illinois along with most of the nation.Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arno...
Lawmakers could finally move forward with a plan to address Illinois' worst-in-the-nation pension problem.A proposal that...
CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County judge who is barred from judicial duties after an alleged confrontation with two sheriff&#...
Chicago's Cardinal Francis George is urging parishioners to let state lawmakers know they oppose gay marriage.George'...
Chicago has logged its 500th homicide of 2012.The last time the city reached the 500-homicide mark was in 2008, when the year...
The November Illinois jobs report came out Thursday, and it came with both good and bad news.Unemployment rates dropped in fo...
Around 150newIllinois laws take effect on Jan. 1, ranging from bans on the possession of shark fins to prohibitions on employ...
A published report says that several politically-connected Illinois judges have found their way back to bench after facing el...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk has briefly returned to his Senate office for the first time since suffering ...
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...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn has proclaimed Friday as a "Day of Mourning" in Illinois for the victims of las...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn has proclaimed Friday as a "Day of Mourning" in Illinois for the victims of las...
CHICAGO (AP) — ComEd is expecting significant damage to its system in northern Illinois and power outages as the first ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Services will be held this weekend for colorful southwestern Illinois sheriff Mearl J. Justus.Justus was...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Secretary of State Police officials have intensified enforcement of underage drinking...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn has left on his annual trip to Germany to deliver cards to service members at a medical c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Railroad Administration has taken action that will allow the full build-out of a high-spe...
LOMBARD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in west-suburban Chicago say the body of a fetus was found in a trash bin outside a sh...
CHICAGO (AP) — Thirteen of the 22 fraternity members facing hazing-related charges after the death of a Northern Illino...
CHICAGO (AP) — The University of Chicago has determined the source of a mystery package that the school received addres...
CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County's chief judge is asking the Illinois Supreme Court to appoint a judge from outside the c...
CHICAGO (AP) — Holiday care packages will go out soon to Illinoisans serving in the military and their families.The spo...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn says the time for an assault weapons ban in Illinois is now.Quinn says the shooting in Co...
CHICAGO (AP) — University of Chicago officials are puzzled by a mystery piece of mail seemingly linked to the Indiana J...
CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago man has been charged with filing a false police report after authorities say he jokin...
CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say the death of a 23-year-old man who fell 22-feet down a Chicago skyscraper smokestack was...
CHICAGO (AP) — Governor Pat Quinn has ordered flags across Illinois to be flown at half-staff in memory of the dozens k...
The sponsors of same-sex marriage in Illinois say they’ll push for a vote in January.Saying they’re “within...
Two Chicago men have been charged with home invasion, residential burglary, and aggravated robbery in connection with Wednesd...
CHICAGO (AP) — Federal authorities in Chicago say a former Indiana man has pleaded guilty to securities fraud in connec...
CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors are expected to continue deliberations at the federal trial of an airline passenger accused of gr...
CHICAGO (AP) — A 23-year-old man has died after falling into a smokestack atop a Chicago hotel.Authorities say the man ...
CHICAGO (AP) — A veteran Illinois state senator charged with trying to board a flight with a gun and ammunition in his ...
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for plotting to attend a Somalia training ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois state officials will donate extra computers from the federal government to help milit...
CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois lawmaker indicted on federal bank fraud and other charges is due in court.The arraignment of...
CHICAGO (AP) — Federal officials are investigating the wrongful convictions of four men convicted as teenagers in the 1...
CHICAGO (AP) — Police say a man already serving time for another crime has been charged with the 1989 murder of Chicago...
CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk will return to work in Washington on Jan. 3, a year after suffering a major stroke t...
CHICAGO (AP) — A veteran Illinois state senator charged with trying to board a flight with a gun and ammunition in a ca...
CHICAGO (AP) — State health officials say there's more flu activity this year than before and it's a good time ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn is counting down the days until his self-imposed Jan. 9 deadline to overhaul Illinois'...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Department of Employment Security says a federal program that provided unemployment insuran...
CHICAGO (AP) — State Sen. Donne Trotter is expected in bond court after he was charged with a felony for trying to brin...
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has set anewdate for the delayed trial of an influential Chicago-area politician on tax ...
CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago and a bartender whose videotaped beating by an off-duty police officer drew national...
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has found a former Cook County commissioner guilty of a misdemeanor charge of destroying a campa...
CHICAGO (AP) — The trial of an influential Chicago-area politician is being pushed back into next month.Jury selection ...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Citizens Utility Board says scams that add charges to customers' cell phone bills have almost do...
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois' state climatologist says November was abnormally cool and dry across the state.Climatologi...
CHICAGO –Governor Pat Quinn has announced that $1.3 million in federal funding was awarded to three Illinois not-fo...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn says he doesn't expect a deal to expand gambling in Illinois before lawmakers address...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn says he doesn't expect a deal to expand gambling in Illinois before lawmakers address...
Alderman Sandi Jackson no-show at Chicago councilCHICAGO (AP) - A day after U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. failed to show up to ...
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...
CHICAGO (AP) - Pat Quinn's budget director says the governor wants to work with lawmakers on a refinancing plan to pay do...
CHICAGO (AP) - Pat Quinn's budget director says the governor wants to work with lawmakers on a refinancing plan to pay do...
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois lawmakers are considering a measure to cap any wage increases for state employees in contracts negoti...
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois lawmakers are considering a measure to cap any wage increases for state employees in contracts negoti...
Illinois State Board of Elections Director Rupert Borgsmiller said yesterday about 907,000 voters cast early ballots. About 2...
CHESTER, Ill. (AP) - A southern Illinois judge has ruled that family members can exhume the bodies of a murdered woman and he...
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois is considering proposals from five companies to build a health insurance exchange that would meet req...
CHICAGO (AP) - It is not likely that election night Chicago will look anything like what happened on election night four year...
CHICAGO (AP) - U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk was met with hugs and cheers as he reached a stair-climbing event's finish line on the...
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is reminding voters of some basic rights ahead of Tuesday's electio...
CHICAGO (AP) - A spokeswoman says Gov. Pat Quinn is ready to move forward after a spat with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel over t...
Event CoordinatorBy the time Nancy Skovgaard graduated from SIUC in 2007 with degree in Marketing and she had 5 years of mana...
