advertisement

Log Out

Illinois

Lawmakers in line for another pay raise

Associated Press
Apr 30, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Fresh off a hefty pay increase last year, state legislators are in line for another raise -- and they will have the final say on whether they and ot...
House passes gun measure

Apr 30, 2008 11:00 pm - The Illinois House has approved legislation that would punish parents who fail to keep guns away from their mentally ill children. The measure would cover parents or gua...
Lawyers want limit on questioning of witness

Associated Press
Apr 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Prosecutors asked a federal judge Wednesday to bar political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko's defense attorney from cross examining key witness Ali Ata about his nephew'...
Extension offices, others await ag funds

Associated Press
Apr 30, 2008 11:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- State agriculture agencies on Thursday hoped to receive at least some of the $36 million in operating funds tied up in a state budget standoff, after being ...
Suburb ends quirky stop-sign campaign

Associated Press
Apr 30, 2008 11:00 pm - OAK LAWN -- Oak Lawn has removed comical remarks in octagonal shapes it placed under stop signs in an effort to get motorists to obey the law. Mayor Dave Heilmann says t...
House orders formal audit of grant mistake

Associated Press
Apr 30, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- Without a single dissenting vote, the Illinois House has ordered a review of how the Blagojevich administration awarded a $1 million grant to the wrong or...
Northwestern dean admits mistake

Associated Press
Apr 30, 2008 11:00 pm - The dean of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism told a meeting of alumni and students that he made a mistake when he quoted an anonymous student in a s...
Past Illiniweks hail to St. Charles student

Associated Press
Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - URBANA -- Officially, Chief Illiniwek is gone, but a group of University of Illinois graduates who once portrayed the controversial mascot has selected a new one, just i...
Governor's pitch for state rebate checks goes nowhere

By John Patterson Daily Herald Staff
Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- In February, Gov. Rod Blagojevich teased taxpayers and lawmakers with the whimsy of state rebate checks that could add hundreds of dollars onto the typica...
50,000 pounds of ribs go up in smoke

Associated Press
Apr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - HAZEL CREST -- Twenty-five tons of beef ribs went up in smoke overnight after the truck in which they were transported caught fire in the South suburbs. Illinois State P...

Showing 30,751-30,760 of 32,409 previous next