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Although the future of Scott Air Force Base in southern Illinois won't be in question for two more years, state and local...
Illinois' largest union has given the final go ahead on a three-year contract with the state.The American Federation of S...
Medical marijuana use in Illinois is now in Gov. Pat Quinn's hands after the state Senate approved legislation.Lawmakers ...
An Illinois senator is blaming unnamed "extremists" who oppose legislation to restrict the possession of concealed ...
The unemployment rate in Illinois is down slightly.The April rate, announced today (Thursday), comes in at 9.3 percent, down ...
Dr. Jennifer Badiu and Dr. Donna Crow stop by to discuss the different types of breast cancer along with plans for the new ca...
An Illinois Senate committee has approved a concealed carry proposal which gives Illinois State Police the power to grant or ...
State universities and community colleges have agreed to gradually pick up their own retirement costs under a preliminary dea...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois 17-year-olds would be able to vote in primary elections in some cases under legislati...
CHICAGO (AP) — A candidate for the chairmanship of theIllinoisRepublican Party who supports gay marriage has pulled out...
PERCY, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor of a man charged with setting a southern Illinois house fire that killed four children ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A new audit has found that less than half of the money from the state Road Fund has gone towar...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois Senate proposal to allow the carrying of concealed weapons would let large cities ...
Someone up above decided it was time to let Illinois farmers do their thing last week.“Rainfall was a little bit below ...
A Chicago-based watchdog group says Illinois must have a long-range plan to address its shaky finances, including the nation&...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon says she supports a bill that would allow the medical use of marijuana in Illinois.Simon told The Assoc...
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says control towers at five small airports in his home state of Illinois, including the Southern Illino...
Local parks around Illinois will be sharing $15.3 million in state money.Gov. Pat Quinn announced the funding for 45 proj...
A former business official with the Carterville schools is facing 16 federal counts related to his alleged theft of funds fro...
Susan Odum stops by to explain why money seems to be trickling out of southern Illinois and into the pockets of neighboring r...
Air Force streamlining efforts mean nearly three dozen civilian jobs have been cut at Scott Air Force Base in southwestern Il...
Both chambers in the General Assembly are set for a showdown over a solution to the state’s $97 billion pension pro...
The SIU Board of Trustees, which has been disfunctional the last few months, finally acted on several items. Joe Ragusa has m...
A union-backed approach for addressing Illinois' nearly $100 billion pension crisis is now going to see a full vote b...
Gov. Pat Quinn says income tax revenue for 2013 will top forecasts by $1.3 billion. He says he'll put the money towar...
House Speaker Michael Madigan is moving forward with a plan to require local school districts to pay their share of teacher p...
A union-backed approach for dealing with Illinois' nearly $100 billion pension crisis is getting its first full airin...
John Tillman from the Illinois Policy Institute stops by to discuss the latest news on pensions coming out of Springfield.
The Illinois Student Assistance Commission is making a 10 percent cut in grants given through its Monetary Awards Program bec...
Senate Democrats are supporting their own plan to solve Illinois’ pension problems.Senate President John Cullerton says...
Representatives from Illinois' gaming industry and the addiction treatment community are teaming up to raise awareness of...
Lawmakers return to Springfield with two options on the table for addressing Illinois' $97 billion pension problem.La...
Southern Illinois residents are bracing for change as the state Legislature considers a regulatory bill that could set off a ...
The U.S. Supreme Court is giving Attorney General Lisa Madigan more time to decide if she wants to appeal the ruling on Illin...
David Yepsin from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute stops by to discuss their latest report on reapportionment in Illino...
A government study finds the suicide rate among middle-aged Illinois residents is increasing, but not by as much as the natio...
A St. Louis supermarket chain is facing a potential class-action lawsuit in Illinois related to a security breach affecting u...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon is encouraging lawmakers to create a committee to study how Illinois funds education and recommend ways...
Bickering between Missouri and Illinois over how to fund a new Mississippi River bridge in St. Louis stalled the $670 mil...
A comprehensive pension-reform plan is now on its way to the Senate.The House voted 62-51 Thursday to advance the measure spo...
A new state report that Illinois coal once shunned for its high sulfur content is enjoying record demand overseas.The Illinoi...
Nearly 150 motorcyclists died in crashes last year in Illinois. In an effort to prevent accidents, motorcycle groups joined W...
Jo Poshard stops by to talk about the $70,000 given by the Poshard Foundation to 28 facilities in southern Illinois to he...
The largest Illinois government employees' union will take a second ratification vote on its tentative three-year contrac...
A spokeswoman for Senate President John Cullerton says he will keep working to pass a pension reform bill he believes can sur...
House Republicans are frustrated over the lack of action on fracking after a bill was proposed last month.State Rep. Mike Bos...
House Republicans are pushing for a vote on a bill regulating high-volume oil and gas drilling in Illinois.Minority Leader To...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is asking the U.S. Supreme Court for more time to decide whether to file an appeal on ...
The U.S. Department of Defense says one of four Air Force members killed in a weekend plane crash in Afghanistan was a pilot ...
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...
The Illinois Supreme Court has announced the death at age 81 of former Chief Justice Moses Harrison.Harrison died Thursday at...
Gov. Pat Quinn says any governors trying to poach Illinois companies are all just "showboating."At least five gover...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's office says he is working with a state employees' union to get $140 million in back pay...
A Herrin woman was taken into custody for stealing a few thousand dollars worth of merchandise from a Sam’s Club in Pad...
Authorities say there was a dispute between the man suspected of killing a south-central Illinois family and at least one of ...
Another governor is trying to lure away Illinois companies.Florida Gov. Rick Scott sent a letter to Illinois' top 100 com...
An Illinois prison-monitoring group says Menard Correctional Center inmates reported concern about "aggressive cellmates...
Smoke Free Illinois would extend to the entirety of the state’s public universities and community colleges, under a bil...
Autopsies are to be performed on five people shot to death in their central Illinois home.Authorities have yet to identify th...
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...
Gov. Pat Quinn has reiterated his support for a concealed carry law that gives local communities the option to impose their o...
State Treasurer Dan Rutherford says Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a point in picking out Illinois' financial problems, but Il...
Nearly 50 Illinois counties declared state disaster areas, following heavy rain. State officials are working to get federal a...
An expansion of Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could increase Illinois' unpaid bills.Th...
David From, the Illinois Director of the group Americans for Prosperity, joins the Morning Newswatch to discuss fracking legi...
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...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is warning residents to be careful of fraud when donating money to charities tied to t...
The Illinois Liquor Control Commission has started a new underage drinking awareness program.The program was announced Thursd...
Unemployment held steady in Illinois in March at 9.5 percent with 629,000 people looking for work.State Department of Employm...
Marion Mayor Bob Butler is celebrating 50 years in office. He is the country’s longest active serving mayor.A statue of...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan raised more than $800,000 in political funds compared to $565,000 for Gov. Pat...
Nearly 250 physicians are calling on Illinois lawmakers to legalize the use of marijuana for patients with serious illnesses....
Illinois motorists are reminded that this week is Work Zone Awareness Week.Gov. Pat Quinn kicked off the week Monday in Morto...
The suburban St. Louis-based grocery store chain Schnucks now says that 2.4 million credit cards and debits cards of its cust...
Gov. Pat Quinn says he has reached out to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency after deadly explosions near the finish li...
Attorney General Lisa Madigan says the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to stay out of the gun debate in New York will influ...
Forty-nine counties in Illinois will get $2,000 each in grant money from the state to promote public awareness of electro...
Lt. Governor Sheila Simon says the state needs to be more transparent with how they use taxpayer money.This is why she is wor...
State regulators and pro-gambling lawmakers are cautiously pledging to try working together to address differences that have ...
Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka says the ever-long list of vendors waiting on payments from the state means taxpayers ...
The suspect in three armed robberies in Marion is now in custody.18-year-old Davon McLorn was arrested around 7 a.m. Thursday...
Another piece of unfinished business in the decade-long investigation of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration has...
A new report says the percentage of Illinoisans who get health insurance through work has declined.The report, released Thurs...
More than 1,000 students selected earlier this year will get the chance to spend time outdoors and help preserve Illinois'...
Illinois Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon is underscoring the state's existing pay inequality based on gender.Simon rallied Tuesday ...
Attorney General Lisa Madigan is the latest high-profile public official from Illinois to call for comprehensive immigration ...
A spokesman for the Illinois National Guard and Air National Guard says more than 1,300 of its civilian employees will be tak...
A House Republican leader has announced his support for legalizing gay marriage in Illinois.Rep. Ed Sullivan Jr. of Mundelein...
An Illinois legislator is trying to prepare the state for what could be a new era in police surveillance.Democratic Sen. Dani...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a law restricting union membership among state employees.The law aims to bar employees fro...
Illinois Policy Institute CEO John Tillman and Tom discuss possible fixes to Illinois' pension systems.
State auditors say the Illinois Department of Natural Resources didn't employ enough mine-safety inspectors the past two ...
Now that spring has arrived, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources wants residents to be prepared for increased intera...
Federal officials are delivering $1.33 million in grants to Illinois fire departments and municipalities to help them bet...
Williamson County Sheriff Bennie Vick would like to alert residents to a phone scam that is working through our area.In this ...
Marion Police are looking for a suspect who stole a car from a gas station two weeks ago.The car, a 1999 silver Mitsubishi Ec...
Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois says he supports same-sex marriage.Kirk said in a post on his blog Tuesday that sa...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon unveiled a 10-point checklist for concealed carry legislation.Simon announced the checklist at the Worl...
You think a car averaging 40 miles per gallon is fuel efficient? Think again.A team of University of Illinois students has de...
The warden at the maximum-security prison in Pontiac says there have been no problems or violent incidents with inmates shipp...
Illinois lawmakers who want to expand gambling are hoping the third time is a charm.Gov. Pat Quinn has twice rejected plans t...
Gov. Pat Quinn says the death of an Illinois state trooper is a reminder of the dangers sworn officers face every day.The Sta...
The USDA says Illinois farmers expect to plant 5 percent fewer acres of corn than last year even as growers across the countr...
Illinois transportation officials are starting a motorcycle safety campaign.The Illinois Department of Transportation kicked ...
The state of Illinois has started sending home inmates early under a revamped sentence-reduction program.Lee Enterprises news...
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is asking energy drink companies to stop marketing their products to children.The Democratic senator fr...
Gov. Pat Quinn is taking steps to ensure Illinois has the workforce it needs to fill thousands of new health care jobs.Quinn ...
Chicago officials want to make it tougher on thugs packing weapons.But legislation to increase prison time for illegal gun po...
The sponsor of a bill that would allow marijuana use for medical purposes in Illinois says the measure is just "one or t...
Illinois' unemployment spiked for a second straight month in February, hitting 9.5 percent. But state officials say the i...
Illinois Auditor General William Holland has pleaded guilty to drunken driving.Holland appeared in Sangamon County Circuit Co...
A former SIU Edwardsville student freed from prison after an appellate court threw out his conviction in an alleged campus th...
The Federal Railroad Administration has chosen Illinois to lead a group of five states hoping to buy high-speed rail locomoti...
A new report finds the healthiestcountyin Illinois is DouglasCounty, in the central part of the state, and the least healthy ...
The Illinois Senate has rejected a pension overhaul that delays cost-of-living increases, pushes back the retirement age for ...
Illinois State Police are teaming up with Anheuser-Busch to post billboards encouraging designating a sober driver.Officials ...
More than 40 lakes, creeks and ponds are stocked with rainbow trout in anticipation of this season's fishing opener.Illin...
The Illinois Senate has approved on a second vote Senate President JohnCullerton's proposal overhauling teacher pensions....
A new report finds the healthiestcountyin Illinois is DouglasCounty, in the central part of the state, and the least healthy ...
The Illinois Senate has rejected a pension overhaul that delays cost-of-living increases, pushes back the retirement age for ...
Illinois State Police are teaming up with Anheuser-Busch to post billboards encouraging designating a sober driver.Officials ...
More than 40 lakes, creeks and ponds are stocked with rainbow trout in anticipation of this season's fishing opener.Illin...
Budget cuts are to blame for two Southern Illinois school districts voting to cut staff.Carrier Mills-Stonefort District 2, a...
The Illinois House has rejected a measure that would require $1 million in liability insurance for people carrying concea...
A Sangamon County judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a state law that eliminates free or reduced-cost health insurance...
Illinois state government workers represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees have voted ...
SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- Illinois Senate President John Cullerton says hiring a private company to operate the state's lottery...
Rod Blagojevich's wife says the former Illinois governor is teaching Civil War history and learning to play the guitar wh...
Former Senator Bill Black stops by to discuss the positives to gaming in Illinois.
Police across Illinois will be stepping up efforts to catch drunk drivers over the St. Patrick's Day weekend.In a press r...
Backers of a measure to regulate high-volume gas and oil drilling in Illinois have agreed on the fees and extraction taxes th...
New U.S. Census estimates show that more than half of Illinois' 102 counties have more deaths than births. The census cal...
The state Department of Transportation is joining the Illinois Farm Bureau and the state police in attempting to encourage dr...
The state Department of Transportation is joining the Illinois Farm Bureau and the state police in attempting to encourage dr...
Scientists from Illinois have found a rare, 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda.The Field Museum in Chica...
An ATV accident has claimed the life of a man from Jonesboro.28-year-old Stephen Wheaton was found dead in a creek around 7:4...
Some Illinois House Republicans have shown their disapproval for the debate style the chamber recently adopted to discuss cha...
An Illinois Senate committee has advanced two somewhat similar proposals to address Illinois' worst-in-nation pension pro...
Illinois will receive about $362,000 from a multistate settlement with Google over its collection of emails, passwords an...
Illinois is settling a federal securities-fraud charge that it misled investors about the health of its pension system.Gov. P...
A member of the Illinois Republican Party's central committee says a meeting was canceled partly because there weren'...
Illinois' environmental community is split on its support for proposed legislation that would regulate high-volume oil an...
One area of state government that's not facing cuts under Illinois's worst-ever budget is its support for passenger r...
Gov. Pat Quinn has authorized the increase of Illinois doctors' license fees after months of discussions among state offi...
The Illinois Department of Public Health is urging women and girls to become educated about and get tested for HIV.In a press...
Unemployment is rising in Illinois.The state Department of Employment Security says Illinois unemployment rose to 9 percent i...
Lawmakers have found at least one fix for the state's multibillion-dollar pension problem that could pass the Illinois Ho...
Healthlink, Illinois’ medical insurance provider for state employees, says its going to increase its funding delay from...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has released her annual list of the top 10 consumer complaints, and complaints about s...
The Illinois House has approved a series of measures that would ban semi-automatic assault weapons in Illinois.One amendment ...
David England and John Tillman joined us on the Morning Newswatch to discuss how money vanishes from the pension systems.John...
Gov. Pat Quinn says the state budget he'll present this week will be "hard and difficult" because of Illinois&#...
Dr. Masha Ryan and Jennifer Badiu from Southern Illinois Healthcare stop by to discuss the Foundations'dinner gala to sup...
Authorities say icy roads are to blame for a southern Illinois wreck that killed a father and son on Interstate 64.Illinois S...
The Humane Society calls it “pay-to-play shooting,” referring to the activity known as “captive hunting.&rd...
Lawmakers in Illinois want to slow down the review process for a major electricity line project by utility company Ameren.Ame...
The Illinois House has approved a measure that would prohibit using cell phones while driving.The 64-46 vote Friday moves the...
A disease that has decimated bat populations in the eastern United States has been detected in Illinois.The Illinois Departme...
There was plenty for lawmakers not to like – in the proposals themselves, the tactics, or both – when they spent ...
Members of Illinois' largest state employee union and Gov. Pat Quinn's administration have reached a tentative contra...
An expansion of Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is one step closer in Illinois.The state Sen...
The top Republican in the Illinois House and the Democrats' chief pension-reform negotiator are teaming up for another ru...
One of the nation's biggest coal producers says federal security regulators are investigating the company's role in d...
A House committee has endorsed allowing Illinois gay and lesbian couples to marry.The House Executive Committee voted 6-5 lat...
The Illinois House completed eight hours of debate on the contentious issue of public gun possession by adopting a comprehens...
Investigators say an overloaded electrical extension cord sparked a southern Illinois house fire that killed a 63-year-old di...
A report from the Chicago-based Civic Federation predicts that Illinois' backlog of unpaid bills will reach nearly $2...
More than two dozen amendments involving the issue of carrying concealed weapons in Illinois could be debated on the House fl...
Mary Ann McMorrow, the first woman to serve on the Illinois Supreme Court and the state's first female chief justice, has...
The Elkville Fire Department will see some more money as part of a federal grant.Six fire departments across Illinois will sp...
The largest state-employee union in Illinois is preparing to ask its members about striking if there's no progress this w...
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) — 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...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Inmates in Illinois' bloated prison system who behave behind bars are again eligible for r...
BENTON, Ill. (AP) — An inmate serving a 20-year federal prison term in southern Illinois for drug dealing will have to ...
BENTON, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois woman faces up to a decade in federal prison now that she has admitted stealing...
CHICAGO (AP) — More than 135,000 high-cost Illinois patients who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid will be as...
Illinois officials say savings from cuts to the state's Medicaid program have fallen short by $464 million, about 30 ...
Two downstate lawmakers have introduced a bill in the House to regulate high-volume oil and gas drilling in Illinois.Marion D...
A man from Herrin is in jail after he lost control of his vehicle on the icy roadways while driving on a warrant.26-year-old ...
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...
A proposal to name a new Mississippi River bridge for the late St. Louis Cardinals great Stan Musial is moving ahead in the M...
Former Illinois prison wardens have reservations about the state's handling of the inmate population.The Department of Co...
The Illinois State fire marshal is urging residents to take steps this winter to avoid fires caused by cooking and heating.In...
A prison watchdog says the need for inmate space in Illinois is "trumping security."Officials announced they plan t...
Federal workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a worker in an underground southern Illinois coal mine.Perr...
The push to legalize same-sex marriage in Illinois will move to the House after passing through the Senate.In a 34-21 vote Th...
Illinois has received conditional federal approval for its plan to provide a health insurance marketplace where thousands of ...
The union representing Illinois correctional workers is demanding a stop to what it says is the transfer of violent maximum-s...
A man from Christopher faces charges of aggravated DUI after a crash that injured five Tuesday night.63-year-old John Meinert...
A new poll is out regarding the governor’s race next year, released by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.Among fiv...
Executive Director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, Richard Pierson, comes by the Morning Newswatch.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says the bridge between Cairo and Wickliffe, Kentucky is “functionally obsolete.&rd...
A union that represents Illinois state workers has issued a memo to members telling them how to prepare in case of a possible...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon announced potential education reforms that would make college more affordable to Illinois students.She ...
A regulatory bill on fracking is expected to be purposed this week, and State Rep. John Bradley says it will make Illinois a ...
A Purple Heart recipient from Illinois will be the guest of Assistant U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Dick Durbin at the State of t...
Lawmakers from southern Illinois didn't like parts of Governor Pat Quinn's State of the State address Wednesday.One o...
Gov. Pat Quinn is telling lawmakers that they hold the solution to solving the state's fiscal crisis, particularly Illino...
Two guards and a chaplain have been released from a hospital after being hurt in an attack at the Menard Correctional Center....
Governor Pat Quinn faces big expectations over how he will address Illinois' disastrous finances when he delivers his Sta...
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Illinois Policy Institute CEO John Tillman joins us on the Morning Newswatch to preview Gov. Pat Quinn's State of the Sta...
Legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in Illinois is expected to come up in a Senate committee meeting Tuesday.That's ...
Education officials say low-income Illinois students who want to participate in free food summer programs can apply soon.Prog...
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...
The State Board of Education honored 624 schools for academic progress and consistent high performance in 2012 by naming them...
Illinois officials aren't naming a prison administrator hired in 2011 who was found unqualified for the position in a rep...
Illinois' public employee unions are asking for a meeting with Gov. Pat Quinn and legislative leaders to come up with an ...
The Illinois State Board of Education has made it tougher for students to be considered proficient on state tests.The board v...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon is inviting new lawmakers from across Illinois to work with her on a concealed carry law.A federal appe...
Legislation designed to promote the education of elementary school children about sexual assault and abuse will be signed by ...
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 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,...
A campaign to name a new Mississippi River bridge at St. Louis for the late Cardinals great Stan Musial is already gaining mo...
The U.S. Supreme Court has dashed a Chicago-area atheist's final legal bid to challenge the use of state funds to renovat...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon has some advice for three Illinois freshmen in Congress: join the Defense Communities Caucus. Simon say...
Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka says Illinois is running out of money for child welfare, workers' compensation and services...
Illinois Democrats haven't given up on borrowing billions of dollars to reduce the state's staggering backlog of unpa...
Sen. Dick Durbin says the chances are good that the U.S. Senate will pass comprehensive immigration reform.Durbin says he is ...
The Illinois Department of Employment Security has announced it is closing seven offices, including its office in Murphysboro...
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...
Gov. Pat Quinn has filed an appeal over a Cook County judge's ruling that the state must pay wage increases promised to w...
A man suspected of robbing two banks in Mount Vernon has been found in Florida.37 year old Willie Franklin of Urbana is suspe...
House Speaker Michael Madigan was re-elected as the Speaker of the House yesterday, and he says Illinois' pension crisis ...
Illinois lawmakers who failed to win reform for the state's $96 billion pension deficit last night before the end of ...
Illinois lawmakers who failed to win reform for the state's $96 billion pension deficit last night before the end of ...
Despite failing to push through pension reform in the lame-duck session, Governor Pat Quinn is commending the Illinois Legisl...
Flu is on the upswing in Illinois along with most of the nation.Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arno...
Emergency rooms are seeing a spike in patients as Illinois experiences one of the biggest flu outbreaks in the nation.The (Ar...
Two federal lawmakers fromIllinoisare getting a firsthand look at urgent efforts to clear some Mississippi River bedrock that...
A key lawmaker says legislation restricting assault weapons isn't likely to come up in the final days of the lame-duck se...
Lawmakers could finally move forward with a plan to address Illinois' worst-in-the-nation pension problem.A proposal that...
Congressman John Shimkus was sworn into office on the floor of the United States House of Representatives yesterday, and will...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn remains optimistic that lawmakers will send him a solution to a monstrous pe...
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A southwestern Illinois man has been sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for his role ...
While a same-sex marriage bill passed an Illinois Senate committee along party lines, even one of thenovoters says people had...
A federal judge in southernIllinoissays he's retiring by the end of this year.The Belleville News-Democrat reports that 6...
The chairman of theIllinoisRepublican Party says support for gay marriage is "the most conservative position" becau...
A coroner says two brothers who were paralyzed after separate car wrecks died when fire consumed their southernIllinoishome.R...
Chicago's Cardinal Francis George is urging parishioners to let state lawmakers know they oppose gay marriage.George'...
Illinois could have $275 million more for road and bridge projects this year if lawmakers approve a Department of Transpo...
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...
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A published report says that several politically-connected Illinois judges have found their way back to bench after facing el...
A man from Marion barely escaped injuries in a single-car crash Saturday in Johnson County.Joshua Martin was traveling north,...
The 11-story Bald Knob Cross of Peace that's among southern Illinois' most popular — and certainly the tallest ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk has briefly returned to his Senate office for the first time since suffering ...
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A southwestern Illinois coroner says this week's wintry weather may have played a role in...
CHICAGO (AP) — One of the sponsors of anewproposal to fix Illinois' pension crisis says the plan would save the sta...
BENTON, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois dentist has been ordered to spend one year and a day in federal prison for defr...
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A former police officer in a southwestern Illinois village is accused of collecting nearly &#...
CAHOKIA, Ill. (AP) — Colorful southwestern Illinois sheriff Mearl J. Justus is being laid to rest.Family, friends and l...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn has named a new leader for the Illinois National Guard.Daniel Krumrei was named...
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...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon says funding for the state's veterans homes is threatened by a growi...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois prison officials have started inmate transfers from the high-security Tamms prison in...
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) — A Democrat hoping to replace former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. says her primary opponents sho...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Secretary of State Police officials have intensified enforcement of underage drinking...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A union official says the short, tumultuous tenure of the Tamms "supermax" prison wi...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn has left on his annual trip to Germany to deliver cards to service members at a medical c...
BENTON, Ill. (AP) — A fire official says a house fire that killed a woman in Benton was sparked by a lighted cigarette....
BENTON, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois woman has been sentenced to five years in prison after admitting she was drivin...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Railroad Administration has taken action that will allow the full build-out of a high-spe...
DIXON, Ill. (AP) — The defense attorney for Rita Crundwell says he may ask that state charges be dropped against the di...
LOMBARD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in west-suburban Chicago say the body of a fetus was found in a trash bin outside a sh...
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Mearl J. Justus, sheriff for three decades in southwestern Illinois' St. Clair County, has ...
Soon after a legislative task force unveiled a report about the shortcomings of emergency medical services in Illinois, profe...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials are reminding older adults to get ready for the approaching cold weather. T...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois students might be ready for the winter break from school, but education officials are...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities have identified a 31-year-old gunman who fatally wounded a concierge desk worker and kille...
[EAST ALTON, IL] – As work begins to blast away rock pinnacles that pose a hazard to barge traffic on the Mississippi R...
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy accused of firing gunshots into the ceiling of a central Illinois high schoo...
MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — Prosecutors say an Illinois man who authorities say planned to attack dozens of churches with Molot...
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — DeKalb police and prosecutors have filed hazing-related charges against nearly two dozen members of...
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 ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn says the time for an assault weapons ban in Illinois is now.Quinn says the shooting in Co...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois and local cities and towns are starting to cash in onnewvideo gambling terminals.The ...
The question of whether Illinoisans should be permitted to carry a concealed weapon has burst onto the scene because of a fed...
Paying for portions of the state’s capital program may come down to closing loopholes, according to Gov. Pat Quinn.Reve...
CHICAGO (AP) — Governor Pat Quinn has ordered flags across Illinois to be flown at half-staff in memory of the dozens k...
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) — The aunt of the gunman suspected in the Connecticut school shooting says her nephew was raise...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — It's been a warmer than usual holiday season so far in Illinois, but State Climatologist Jim...
It looks as if 2013 will be the year Illinois tries to pass a concealed-carry law. That’s because a federal appeals cou...
The sponsors of same-sex marriage in Illinois say they’ll push for a vote in January.Saying they’re “within...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A new study paid for by the Illinois Chamber of Commerce says the New Albany Shale formation in ...
WALTONVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities are trying to pinpoint what sparked two deadly house fires just hours apart in sou...
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A coroner in southwestern Illinois has ruled that the death of a 62-year-old highway worker w...
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A federal prosecutor says the owner of a southwestern Illinois hauling company has pleaded ...
CHICAGO (AP) — A veteran Illinois state senator charged with trying to board a flight with a gun and ammunition in his ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court is siding with Gov. Pat Quinn in his effort to close prisons and ot...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois state officials will donate extra computers from the federal government to help milit...
TROY, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois high school was locked down for about three hours when two bullets were found.The...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois State Crime Commission says it's declaring "war" on drug dealers wh...
CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois lawmaker indicted on federal bank fraud and other charges is due in court.The arraignment of...
The Army Corps of Engineers is standing their ground when tocomesto water flow on the Mississippi River.U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin...
Now that his veto of funding for prisons has been affirmed, the governor is planning to ask a judge this week for permission ...
MATTOON, Ill. (AP) — More than 150 employees of a telecommunications company in eastern Illinois have gone on strike as...
Four local school districts are the recipient of grants given to 110 schools around the state, totaling around $14 millio...
DIXON, Ill. (AP) — Online auctions of items belonging to former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell have raised more than ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Researchers have found records that Abraham Lincoln signed detailing his travel and expenses d...
CHICAGO (AP) — A veteran Illinois state senator charged with trying to board a flight with a gun and ammunition in a ca...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn is counting down the days until his self-imposed Jan. 9 deadline to overhaul Illinois'...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois will get nearly $35 million if federal aid for early childhood education.The Race...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says hunters harvested more than 99,000 deer duri...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Department of Employment Security says a federal program that provided unemployment insuran...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois says several communities in the state will share more than $21 ...
A couple wanted for a Johnson County shooting has been found.Late yesterday John L. Cunningham, 41, and his wife, Janet S. Cu...
BENTON, Ill. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say drugs found in the jail cell of a former Illinois sheriff awaiting resenten...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Senate President John Cullerton is concerned anewplan to fix the state's $95 ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Rank-and-file lawmakers frustrated by slow progress and finger-pointing are offering their own...
Christmas is a time of Giving and Joy. This holiday season Black Diamond Harley-Davidson and River Radio have teamed up to he...
DES PLAINES, Ill. (AP) — Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez has ordered her office's sex crimes divisio...
The Illinois House yesterday voted overwhelmingly to override the governor’s veto of a bill that created an assault wea...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn says he supports a plan to allow illegal immigrants in Illinois to get driver&#...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Lawmakers will have anewproposal on the table on Wednesday as part of efforts to fix Illinois&...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State Police are reminding motorists to slow down and exercise caution around vehicle...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Citizens Utility Board says scams that add charges to customers' cell phone bills have almost do...
DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Drug and medical device maker Baxter International says it will buy the privately held Swedish c...
While it’s not on the front burner, legalizing same sex marriage in Illinois is still on the radar of one state represe...
Some lawmakers continue to muster support for medical marijuana in Illinois.StateSenator Matt Murphy says there are still som...
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois' state climatologist says November was abnormally cool and dry across the state.Climatologi...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Top Illinois Republicans plan to announce their support for providing driver's licenses to...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois medicine-monitoring program has joined a national data-sharing network to help pre...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers return to the Capitol Tuesday for the final three days of the Legislature&#...
BARTELSO, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in southwestern Illinois say a firefighter is dead after being struck by a fire truck...
There was a fatal car crash in Saline County Saturday evening around 8:00 p.m.According to authorities, Deana L. Smith was dr...
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...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — State health officials are urging Illinois residents to get flu shots.Doing so, they say, does...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn says he doesn't expect a deal to expand gambling in Illinois before lawmakers address...
PALATINE, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon has joined the campaign against texting and driving.Simon on Thursday vi...
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - A Naperville woman accused of stabbing to death her 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old girl she was babysit...
CHICAGO (AP) - ExxonMobil Oil Corp. has agreed to investigate the cause of an oil-mist release at a northern Illinois refiner...
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - The man who started the geography department at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville more t...
CHICAGO (AP) - Investigators who look into complaints against Illinois doctors are being warned layoffs will start in January...
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A southwestern Illinois man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison in the 2008 tire-iron beating de...
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A southwestern Illinois man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison in the 2008 tire-iron beating de...
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A southwestern Illinois man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison in the 2008 tire-iron beating de...
Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka met this month withcity officials from all over southern Illinois to discuss ways that state an...
CHICAGO (AP) - Pat Quinn's budget director says the governor wants to work with lawmakers on a refinancing plan to pay do...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Senate President John Cullerton is defending attempts to fix the state's pension proble...
CHICAGO (AP) - Pat Quinn's budget director says the governor wants to work with lawmakers on a refinancing plan to pay do...
Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka met this month withcity officials from all over southern Illinois to discuss ways that state an...
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...
NEW ATHENS, Ill. (AP) - A southwestern Illinois police chief is accused of stealing electronic equipment from the New Athens ...
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...
A traveling program to ensure Illinois Veterans know what services are available to them as well as their families and potent...
This year’s regional event will be held at6:00 pm on Thursday, Nov. 29 starting at the SIUC Student Health Center on Gr...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois state fire officials remind residents to change their smoke alarm batteries this weekend.Wi...
HARRISBURG, Ill. (AP) - Eight people killed when a tornado tore through Harrisburg earlier this year are being memorialized w...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Fifteen emergency responders from Illinois are headed to New York City to help in the aftermath of H...
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is reminding voters of some basic rights ahead of Tuesday's electio...
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk has appeared in a campaign video for fellow Republican Bob Dold, who is runnin...
CHICAGO (AP) - A spokeswoman says Gov. Pat Quinn is ready to move forward after a spat with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel over t...
AYP and NCLB/Outcomes to DateThe 2010 school year was the tipping point when 51 percent of Illinois Public Schools did not ma...
ZION, Ill. (AP) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it will update the public on decommissioning activities at the shutt...
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois officials say a state-run mental health facility in Rockford will close this week.Officials sa...
River Radio of Southern Illinois is seeking a full time Marketing Consultant Applicants must have a desire to win, competitiv...
