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CHICAGO — A cellphone video appears to show a security guard at a Chicago high school shoving a student down a flight of stairs.

MUPRHYSBORO — A Southern Illinois woman who threw her baby away after giving birth at a party has been sentenced to three years in prison.

AURORA — An Illinois police officer has been honored for pulling a man from a burning car despite being off duty at the time.

SPRINGFIELD – House and Senate Democrats said Friday they’ve agreed on a proposed Illinois budget that avoids another cut to education funding and immediately pays bills owed to human services providers, including those who help the mentally ill, homeless and developmentally disabled.

CHICAGO – Virtual charter schools in Illinois are being placed on temporary hold.

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois health officials say they're investigating reports that five patients developed abscesses after receiving potentially contaminated steroid injections at a downstate clinic.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is lashing out at lawmakers after the Illinois House approved a concealed carry bill that he says "puts public safety at risk."

SPRINGFIELD – Gun owners could carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the last state in the nation to prohibit it, under legislation that swept through the House Friday with the backing of the powerful Democratic speaker from Chicago, a city torn by violence despite what critics claim are the nation's toughest firearms restrictions.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A southwestern Illinois judge already under scrutiny after a colleague died of a cocaine overdose at his family's hunting lodge was charged Friday with possession of heroin and guns.

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A man accused of killing five members of a central Illinois family with a tire iron has taken the witness stand to speak directly to jurors.

CHICAGO – An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday – she lost.