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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has endorsed Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth in her Democratic primary election bid for U.S. Congress.More >>

Illinois Republican officials are giving Governor Pat Quinn's budget address mixed reviews. Treasurer Dan Rutherford (ROOTH'-er-furd) is glad Quinn has set deadlines for suggestions on how to fix the state's...More >>

House Speaker Michael Madigan is applauding Gov. Pat Quinn for laying out the state's financial crisis in stark terms.More >>

Illinois Republicans are criticizing Gov. Pat Quinn's budget address as short on specifics and light on job creation.More >>

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn delivered his fiscal year 2013 budget address on Wednesday. Here are quotes from the speech and reaction from state leaders.More >>

Gov. Pat Quinn says Illinois must act now on fixing government pension systems, but he isn't proposing a solution.More >>

Illinois residents have more time to register to vote in the state's primary.More >>

Authorities in Rochester are investigating the death of an Amtrak passenger apparently dragged by a train after being kicked off for drunkenness.More >>

A southern Illinois man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for driving impaired when he struck and killed a pedestrian more than two years ago.More >>

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has named 35 national co-chairs, including elected officials, campaign volunteers and a few celebrities.More >>

The owner of a Kansas City business admitted that he embezzled more than $750,000 from dozens of homeowners associations.More >>

The Civil Air Patrol has named a southern Illinois man as its new leader in the state.More >>

A new count shows there were slightly more bald eagles in Illinois this January compared with January of last year.More >>

The daughters of a 77-year-old man who was found dead last month partly submerged in a creek are suing the southwestern Illinois nursing home from which the man wandered.More >>

Some Chicago aldermen and others are pushing for the closure of the city's two coal-fired power plants.More >>

Officials at Edward Hospital say the families of sick children now have a place to stay without leaving the hospital.More >>

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is set to propose shuttering 14 major state facilities, including two prisons, and making deep cuts to most state agencies and programs when he unveils his budget proposal.More >>

Gov. Pat Quinn's budget speech won't include proposals for fixing two of Illinois' biggest financial problems.More >>

After seeing attendance drop Illinois has lowered the cost of some football tickets for 2012.More >>

One of four men involved in the death of a 10-year-old who was caught in gang crossfire has been sentenced to prison.More >>

Archer Daniels Midland Co. is eliminating 175 jobs in Decatur.More >>

Gov. Pat Quinn's proposed Illinois budget calls for closing 14 state facilities, including eight run by the Corrections Department.More >>

U.S. authorities say they've foiled a major debt-collecting scam that generated at least 8 million fraudulent calls from India since 2010 and bilked more than 10,000 victims all across the United States.More >>

Environmental groups say they may renew a legal battle if the federal government doesn't toughen proposed regulations of ship ballast water that has brought invasive species such as zebra mussels to the Great Lakes.More >>

Members of Illinois' congressional delegation are promoting changes to a U.S. House transportation bill they say would deprive the state of millions in highway funds and jeopardize Chicago's transit system.More >>

Authorities in Chicago say a boy who suffered from Down syndrome died after falling down a trash chute in the high-rise building where he lived.More >>

Residents in Illinois and three other states have reported feeling a magnitude 4.0 earthquake that was centered in southeast Missouri.More >>

A Chicago Blackhawks player is launching a foundation dedicated to helping marginalized and at-risk youth.More >>

The Chicago mayor's office is touting the release of what it says is its first-ever quarterly budget report.More >>

Attorneys are expected to give their final arguments Tuesday in the trial of two white supremacist brothers accused of bombing a city official in Arizona because he is black.More >>

The editor of a Chicago-based news cooperative that has provided content to the New York Times over the last 2 1/2 years says it will suspend operations.More >>

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Gov. Pat Quinn says he's prepared to cut the state budget back to levels Illinois hasn't seen in more than four years.More >>

Rick Santorum says President Barack Obama is pushing a radical environmental agenda that unwisely limits energy production and turns its back on science.More >>

A northern Illinois man has died after falling through the ice on the pond where he was skating with his son.More >>

Chicago city officials say graffiti-removal crews are taking a new approach to the job.More >>

Medical reports say transgender teens and even younger kids are getting sex-changing treatment at some U.S. clinics.More >>

Gov. Pat Quinn has asked a number of the state's constitutional offices to slash their annual budgets by at least 9 percent, but won't say how he arrived at that figure.More >>

Authorities say one man is dead and two others injured after an early-morning accident near the campus of Northern Illinois University.More >>

Authorities in north-central Illinois say one person was fatally shot in what appears to be a home invasion in rural LaSalle County.More >>

The DuPage County Sheriff's Office says an off-duty police officer shot a person in a parking lot on Fermilab's property.More >>

Chicago is among the final stops of the North American tour of "Riverdance."More >>

Authorities say one person is dead and another injured after a shooting outside a nightclub on Chicago's North Side.More >>

Chicago's Field Museum has opened a rare display of mummies from its own collection. Many of them haven't been seen by the public since the World's Columbian Exposition, held in the city in 1893.More >>

A nationwide hunt for four horses reported stolen from a stable in northern Illinois has ended after the owner discovered them in a neighbor's yard.More >>

A lawyer for an Illinois woman accused of trying to kill her newborn by dumping her in a toilet says the woman is unfit to stand trial on attempted murder charges.More >>

Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the U.S. Census Bureau undercounted Chicago's population in its 2010 figures.More >>

Since World War II, only two men - both Democrats - have represented the congressional district that runs from the St. Louis suburbs to Illinois' southernmost tip.More >>

Around 100 students, teachers and community activists are staging a sit-in at a struggling Chicago school to try to block the city's intervention in turning around the school's poor performance.More >>

State and local officials have organized an "energy fair" in Chicago to help homeowners learn services available to them for improving energy efficiency.More >>

The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved new water and sewer rates for Aqua Illinois customers after cutting more than $1 million from the company's request for new revenue.More >>

A Wisconsin dairy is warning residents not to drink some of its whole milk because it may not be properly pasteurized.More >>

The head of the Illinois Hospital Association says Gov. Pat Quinn's proposal to cut $2 billion from the Medicaid program is a blunt approach that would hurt the Illinois economy and cost 19,000 jobs.More >>

Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk has started walking exercises on a treadmill as he continues his recovery from a stroke in January.More >>

Lying to police may be a bad idea, but the Illinois Supreme Court says it's not always a crime.More >>

Hogs: 125 Trading moderately active; barrows and gilts are steady.More >>

December wasn't just a slow month for Winnebago County home builders, it was the slowest on record.More >>

The Detroit Historical Society says a large clock that once was displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1934 has been damaged by vandal.More >>

A federal appeals court in Chicago is criticizing the U.S. Bureau of Prisons for sending a convicted former U.S. deputy marshal to the same prison where his father died decades ago.More >>

Authorities say the driver of a car near Lansing has died after the vehicle was hit by an Amtrak train heading from Chicago to Port Huron.More >>

The run up to last week's Powerball jackpot raised $14.5 million for Illinois schools, roads and bridges.More >>

Celebrated playwright Tony Kushner will share his thoughts on the AIDS epidemic as the guest of honor at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago's annual spring dinner.More >>

A judge has sentenced a suburban Chicago man to 35 years in prison for producing and transporting child pornography.More >>

A monthly survey of bankers in 10 Midwest and Great Plains states shows the rural economy slowing down, but reflects strong gains in hiring and farmland prices.More >>

Friends and family are gathering for a private memorial service for "Soul Train" creator and host Don Cornelius in Los Angeles.More >>

One of the men convicted last month in the 2008 shooting death of a 10-year-old Chicago girl has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.More >>

Leaked documents from a prominent conservative think tank show how it sought to teach schoolchildren skepticism about global warming and planned other behind-the-scenes tactics using millions of dollars in donations from big...More >>

Movie critic Roger Ebert is helping raise money for the college newspaper where he cut his teeth.More >>

A federal judge has ruled a store chain's reference to Michael Jordan in an ad-like magazine layout was constitutionally protected free speech, not an advertisement.More >>

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn will be among the officials meeting with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (shee jeen ping) on Friday in California.More >>

Police are continuing their search in a forest preserve for a Chicago-area woman who disappeared the same day she was to have traveled for a Valentine's Day trip with her husband.More >>

Hogs: 150 Trading moderately active; barrows and gilts are steady.More >>

The head of the Chicago firefighters union says the department's commissioner is about to step down.More >>

A federal judge has struck a blow to Michael Jordan's lawsuit against a Chicago-area supermarket chain over a magazine ad three years ago.More >>

The search continues for a 73-year-old Peoria man with Alzheimer's disease who's been missing since Sunday afternoon.More >>

Federal prosecutors say eight men have pleaded guilty to selling heroin in Cedar Rapids.More >>

Illinois home foreclosure activity rose 14 percent in January compared to the previous month as lenders resolve paperwork problems that had slowed the process.More >>

Officials say fewer voters are registered in suburban Cook County than during the 2008 general election as the Feb. 21 deadline for registering approaches.More >>

Knox College turned 175 years old Wednesday and planned to celebrate with, among other things, a showing of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."More >>

The MacArthur Foundation has named 15 organizations in six countries the winners of a new round of awards that recognize creative and effective institutions.More >>

Chicago's City Council is banning the sale of synthetic stimulants that mimic the effects of cocaine, Ecstasy and methamphetamines that are marketed as "bath salts."More >>

Chicago's City Council has approved a $1.75 million settlement for the family of a 13-year-old girl who died after city paramedics incorrectly inserted a tube to help her breathe.More >>

A Chicago alderman has introduced an ordinance that would prohibit the police department from cutting off protesters' cell phones and access to social media sites during the G-8 and NATO summits the city is hosting in...More >>

Gov. Pat Quinn has named a former state representative as director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture.More >>

Federal funding of sewage system improvements in the Great Lakes region would drop about $110 million next year under President Barack Obama's proposed budget.More >>

A southwestern Illinois judge's latest ruling that a man is mentally unfit for trial in the mid-sermon shooting death of a pastor three years ago raises the prospect that the defendant may never face a jury.More >>

An Illinois Senate panel is expected to meet to get a snapshot of the state's finances a week before Gov. Pat Quinn gives his budget address.More >>