Illinois News

Illinois' fire marshal wants residents to check their smoke detectors. Fire Marshal David Foreman wants people to check to see if they are using a smoke detector that was recalled Thursday because it may not sound in a fire.

Maybe now that Lisa Madigan has decided to stay put as Illinois' attorney general, Gov.

Thousands of families have been flooding a historic black cemetery in Illinois where four people are accused of unearthing hundreds of corpses in a scheme to resell burial plots.

Without the $4,900 a year she receives from the Illinois Monetary Award Program for college students, Deanna Childress doubts she'd be where she is now, a senior at Aurora University.

The Senate dealt a blow to the drug lobby Thursday by voting to permit people in the United States to order lower-cost drugs from Canada over the Internet.

With ties to shamed former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojavich, Roland Burris took his Senate seat under fire.

The Illinois congressional seat that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert once held for 20 years may see a Hastert comeback.

Pennsylvania Representative Patrick Murphy, who in 2006 was the first Iraq veteran to be elected to Congress, has taken up sponsorship of a bill that would repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The bill's original sponsor, Ellen Tauscher, has left Congress to accept a post in the Obama administration, reported Philadelphia newspaper The Intelligencer in ...

Add State Sen. Kirk Dillard to the growing list of Republicans running for Illinois governor.

Leaders in southwestern Illinois hope the state's senior U.S. senator gets the region another delay in the publication of newly drawn Mississippi River flood maps.

Workers at a historic Illinois cemetery may have dug up more than 100 bodies and dumped them in mass graves at the back of the 150-acre property in a scheme to resell plots to unsuspecting customers, authorities said Wednesday.

Two members of the Illinois Army National Guard have died this week while serving in Afghanistan.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan appears before the Illinois Reform Commission in Chicago.

John Harris, the chief of staff under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has followed through on his promise to plead guilty and support the prosecution's case against the former governor.

SPRINGFIELD, IL a ' Seven Illinois law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty were honored today during Illinois Police Officersa TM Memorial Day ceremonies at the state capitol.

A cement company has closed a piece of the Vermilion River in north-central Illinois that's popular with whitewater rafters.

Sen. Dick Durbin has sent President Barack Obama his short list of the people he thinks should be the U.S. attorneys and marshals for central and southern Illinois.

Illinois has seen 12 local banks fail in 2009. The next highest is Georgia with nine failures and then California with six.

Chrysler plans to restart production at a northern Illinois plant and is recalling hundreds of workers.

If you think you've got it bad enough this summer with a lighter wallet than in years past, imagine also waking up stuck to your sheets with sweat.