Illinois News

Gun owners rally at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill., in favor of concealed carry during Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day on March 6, 2013.

Chicago's next U.S. attorney faces a dilemma sprung from the twin evils bedeviling America's third-largest city.

By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better chance at surgery.

The Bureau County Republican's Editorial and Advertising Departments pose for a photo with the trophy they brought home, designating the newspaper as the best in the state of Illinois in its circulation division.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked the United States Supreme Court for another extension, calling this one a "second and final thirty-day extension" on the conceal and carry issue.

Suitor and her husband, Mark, loan hens from spring until the warm weather fades, as late as Thanksgiving.

Bill Daley's family has been a constant presence in Chicago and the state of Illinois for decades, with both his father and brother serving as mayor of Chicago at some point in time.

John P. Wilkin , an associate university librarian at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, will become dean of libraries and university librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on August 16. Mr. Wilkin directs the Michigan library's information-technology and publishing divisions and the university press.

If ever there was a region where incumbent Republican governors can experience the great GOP gubernatorial apocalypse, it is the upper Midwest.

As lawmakers strain again this week to find a fix for the state's $97 billion pension crisis, the stalemate between House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton highlights the evolving relationship between two powerful Democratic friends who've seldom had such a prolonged disagreement on such an urgent issue.

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan speaks at a news conference Friday, June 14, 2013, in Chicago.

" The time has come and we are ready to make this happen ," says British award-winning director Keith Musaman Morton, as he raises a picture of a rusted steelpan.

This is Friday's report of the grain prices and trends, prepared by the USDA and the Illinois Department of Agriculture.

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Syracuse received a verbal commitment on Saturday from Colton Moskal, a middle linebacker out of Lake Zurich High School in Illinois.

Armed citizens like George Zimmerman who killed Trayvon Martin in Florida last year have been accused of vigilante justice--taking the law into their own hands.

Lauren Grey didn't think much about the gender recorded on her Illinois driver's license until she went to test-drive a new car.

Joe Adams of Clinton has joined Prairie Engineers of Illinois as a Professional Land Surveyor and civil engineer intern.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn called members of the Legislature back to work for a special session to help resolve the pension crisis.

This week the U.S. Department of Energy launched the eGallon -- a quick and simple way for consumers to compare the costs of fueling electric vehicles vs. driving on gasoline.