advertisement

Log Out

Illinois

Prominent lawyer may join Blagojevich legal team

Associated Press
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Prominent criminal defense attorney Terence P. Gillespie may join former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's legal team, a move that would guarantee Blagojevich at least one solid, b...
Railroad police officer fatally shoots suspect

Associated Press
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - A man was shot to death by a Canadian National Railway police officer after he was allegedly fired upon in Homewood. Canadian National spokesman Patrick Waldron said two...
Quinn issues 'emergency' calls for public works spending

By Joseph Ryan Daily Herald Staff
Mar 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn ratcheted up pressure on lawmakers Monday to pass even a truncated public works package in the next two weeks, declaring "This is an emergency." In launch...
Quinn says it's OK if taxes cost him his job

Associated Press
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says he realizes that his proposal to raise income taxes could cost him another term, but he has to do what's right. Quinn said at a press confer...
Naked man rescued after bridge jump

Associated Press
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS -- The co-pilot of a police helicopter rescued a naked man who had jumped from a bridge into the Mississippi River south of St. Louis. It happened late Sunday,...
Trash burn sparks downstate brush fires

Associated Press
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - PEMBROKE TOWNSHIP -- Pembroke Township Fire Chief Mark Baines says residents burning garbage were probably to blame for three brush fires that hit his area of Kankakee C...
Police ticket dozens of students after basketball tournament

Associated Press
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - PEORIA -- State police say they cited 83 people for underage drinking following several parties in the Peoria area after the first day of a high school state basketball ...
Gettysburg Address reading falls short of record

Associated Press
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- An attempt to honor Abraham Lincoln by setting a new world record for the most people reading aloud fell short of the goal -- and by a lot more than four ...
State's nursing homes tops in younger mentally ill

Associated Press
Mar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois ranks highest among the states in the number of mentally ill adults under age 65 living in nursing homes: 12,736 last year, according to an Associated Press ana...
Alleged 'enemy combatant' faces trial in Illinois

Associated Press
Mar 21, 2009 11:00 pm - PEORIA -- Ali al-Marri followed his older brother to central Illinois in the mid-1980s to pursue a business education unavailable in his native Qatar, becoming a Bulls f...

Showing 28,651-28,660 of 32,403 previous next