Illinois
-
Ill. junior high opens Depression-era time capsule
Jan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - CLINTON -- Officials and students at a central Illinois junior high school are sifting through memories left them by their Depression-era predecessors. About 125 people ...
-
5 national guardsmen recover after attack
Jan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois National Guard says five guardsmen who were injured in a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan are reported in stable condition. The five...
-
Blagojevich makes no answer to state Senate charges
Jan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has filed no answer to impeachment charges against him as the state Senate directed. He may still file a request to dismiss ...
-
Police: 3-week-old baby mauled by family dog
Jan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - BOURBONNAIS -- A 3-week-old child is dead after being mauled by the family dog in the north-central Illinois community of Bourbonnais. Bourbonnais police say the child d...
-
Illinois stands proud as Obama takes historic oath of office todayJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON- A Defining Moment. Every generation has maybe a few. Footsteps on the moon. Martin Luther King Jr. stoically marching across an Alabama bridge. A concrete...
-
State GOP plans to turn table on Dems
Jan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Both times Rod Blagojevich was elected governor, it was as if he'd run against the same opponent: the legacy of a corrupt former governor who was the disgraced face of t...
-
Police investigate 2 deaths after party
Jan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - WATAGA -- Police are investigating the deaths of two men who died after a weekend party at a home in the west central Illinois community of Wataga (wuh-TAH-guh). Knox Co...
-
Blago trial delays action on state's real woes
Jan 18, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- While the Illinois Senate zeros in on Gov. Rod Blagojevich in a historic impeachment trial, other vital state issues are being shoved aside. There will be...
-
Fertility center opens at SIUJan 18, 2009 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- The medical school at Southern Illinois University in Springfield has opened a new fertility center. Three SIU faculty physicians and three senior laborat...
-
Freight train derails near Kankakee County town of Grant Park
Jan 18, 2009 10:00 pm - Authorities say about 20 cars of a freight train derailed near the small Kankakee County town of Grant Park, about 50 miles south of Chicago. There were no reports of in...