If turkeys could fly, more of them would escape the Thanksgiving cleaver and we'd be eating salami on Thursday.

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Charleston- A $75 million project that essentially pays for itself through energy savings.

Democrat Rep. Phil Hare today endorsed the plan to house enemy terrorists at the Thomson prison.

PAT QUINN HAS APPROVED 133 CLEMENCY PETITIONS, PART OF WHAT HE CALLS A ``MASSIVE BACKLOG'' OF NEARLY 2,500 CASES BUILT UP UNDER FORMER GOV.

It didn't take long for proposals to house Guantanamo Bay detainees at a nearly empty Illinois prison to spark tough talk by Republicans - across the Mississippi River in Iowa.

CHICAGO - Amtrak says 1.8 million passengers rode its state-supported trains in Illinois in fiscal year 2009, a slight increase from 2008.

Did the Senate Ethics Committee issue two reports about U.S. Sen. Roland Burris on Friday? In the report we saw, Burris was publicly admonished for giving “inconsistent, misleading or incomplete information” about his maneuverings last year to win the Senate appointment from then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich – the same Blagojevich who ...

Illinois governor candidate Dan Hynes wants public colleges to make it easier for military veterans to get into school.

The Illinois Senate will try to find the cause of a gaping racial disparity in how schoolchildren are disciplined.

The White House and Illinois Democrats said Tuesday that their bid to hold on to President Barack Obama's old Senate seat won't be easy and their difficulties aren't just because of the scandal that engulfed ousted Gov.

" With highway fatalities down thus far in 2009, Illinois Transportation Secretary Gary Hannig today announced an all out Click It or Ticket mobilization aimed at saving a record number of lives during the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Despite many unanswered questions, the proposal to sell an Illinois prison to the federal government to house terrorist suspects is apparently moving quickly.

Sparkly reindeer-dung necklaces are going on sale at an Illinois zoo that hopes to attract the same holiday shoppers who swept up its dung Christmas ornaments last year.

Pat Quinn has created a commission tasked with making recommendations about human services in Illinois.

From a press release from the Andy McKenna campaign: The Washington Post The Fix by Chris Cillizza November 23, 2009 9. For our money, the best ads we've seen so far in the 2010 midterms are in Illinois for Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna .

A central Illinois utility company has announced it will launch a $20 million cleanup of underground contaminants at a defunct gas-manufacturing plant in Quincy.

Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation that allows Illinois servicemembers who have been injured abroad to apply for $5,000 grants.

A Northwest Side woman has been charged with sexual assault of a child who is a female relative.

The hair is back. Republican Andy McKenna is launching another ad in his campaign for governor that uses former Gov.