Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is the recipient of this year’s Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation’s Lincoln Leadership Prize. The foundation says the...
A top lawyer for the federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s appeal. Solicitor General Noel...
State Comptroller Susana Mendoza is asking legislators to require the governor’s office to pay employee salaries from its own budget instead of “off-shoring” the...
An Illinois House committee has approved a bill that would prevent credit card companies from marketing their products on public university and community college...
U.S. Steel Corporation says it will restart one of two blast furnaces along with steel-making facilities in Granite City. The announcement comes after President...