Illinois News

A former southern Illinois attorney imprisoned on federal drug charges has had a year added to sentence.

A 2-year study will look for the reason the treatment of lung cancer is lagging in southern Illinois.

Gov. Pat Quinn says Illinois must cut its Medicaid budget by $2 billion to help solve the state's fiscal woes.

A northern Illinois nuclear plant is back up and running after a reactor lost power and shut down last week.

The mad rush to move client money out of MF Global Inc. after its collapse left two firms with the bulk of customer accounts, while other brokerages emerged with only minor gains from the chaos of carving up a multibillion-dollar business.

That's when U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough ruled against the Second Amendment Foundation, Inc., Illinois Carry and Michael Moore,Charles Hooks, Peggy Fechter and Jan Maier.

The following is a release from Community Consolidated District 181: For the fourth consecutive year, all nine Community Consolidated School District 181 schools have been named Illinois Honor Roll Schools.

State climatologist Jim Angel of the Illinois Water Survey says the average temperature in January for the state was 31.4 degrees.

Don Manzullo was endorsed by the Illinois Tea Party in his pursuit for re-election in the 16th Congressional District.

Five teams from the Big Ten find a home in this week's AP Top 25 poll. They are Ohio State at #3, Michigan State , Wisconsin , Michigan , and Indiana .

Tiawanda Moore didn't think she was doing anything wrong when she took out her smartphone and started recording a conversation with two Chicago police officers she says were trying to stop her from filing a sexual harassment complaint against one of their colleagues two years ago.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois residents don't have the right to record audio of their conversations with police, a law that some state legislators say needs to be changed, especially with the likelihood of protests at this spring's NATO and G8 summits in Chicago.

Here's a neat trick: Next time you're in the company of an Illinois school official mention the General Assembly and be prepared for an earful.

Phil Rock, who was president of the Illinois Senate from 1979 to 1993, has co-written a book which tells how he tried to do things the right way.

Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry told POLITICO he will likely appeal an FCC decision to keep his graphic presidential campaign ad featuring images of fetus parts off NBC's Chicago station during Sunday's Super Bowl.

Southern Illinois is on a major faultline, and there is a 25 to 40 percent probability that an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 or higher will hit the central United States in the next 50 years.

By CHRISTOPHER WILLS Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Gov. Pat Quinn took a shotgun approach to his State of the State address last week, firing a wide blast that hit on topics from jobs to education to mortgages.

Michael Foods says it's recalling buckets of hard-cooked eggs in brine sold for institutional use from its Wakefield, Neb., facility due to potential Listeria.

Given the state's financial predicament, lawmakers will need to consider every possible strategy for cutting the state's Medicaid budget this year, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Director Julie Hamos says.

The Carbondale Police Department and Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Department of Public Safety are investigating a robbery that occurred early Saturday morning near University Hall.