State
May 6, 2013 - 8:16 p.m.•By SARA BURNETT - The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD – Senate President John Cullerton announced Monday his chamber will move forward with a new union-backed pension reform proposal he says will save Illinois money and is at less risk of being tossed out by the courts than a plan approved by the House last week.
May 6, 2013 - 1:35 p.m.•By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — A Taiwanese man who the U.S. government links to supplying weapons machinery to North Korea has been arrested along with his son.
May 6, 2013 - 1:15 p.m.•By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO (AP) — A former northern Illinois comptroller sentenced this year for stealing nearly $54 million from her community has been transferred to a federal jail in downtown Chicago.
May 6, 2013 - 8:00 a.m.•By The Associated Press
May 6, 2013 - 7:57 a.m.•By The Associated Press
May 6, 2013 - 7:55 a.m.•By The Associated Press
May 6, 2013 - 7:52 a.m.•By The Associated Press
May 6, 2013 - 5:30 a.m.•By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROCKFORD – An online petition is urging Winnebago County officials to allow residents to raise chickens in their back yards.
May 6, 2013 - 5:30 a.m.•By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO – The Illinois Gaming Board’s chairman said changes made to a proposed gambling expansion bill are merely cosmetic.
May 5, 2013 - 6:52 p.m.•By SOPHIA TAREEN – The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn on Sunday vetoed a plan to increase electricity rates by up to $70 million — a proposal that Commonwealth Edison Co. had pitched as a way to get electrical grid modernization back on track.
May 5, 2013 - 12:30 p.m.•By TAMMY WEBBER - Associated Press
VIENNA – This is the Illinois that many people never see – the sparsely populated southern tip where flat farmland gives way to rolling hills, rocky outcrops, thick forests and cypress swamps.
May 5, 2013 - 11:11 a.m.•By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Madison County Chief Circuit Judge Ann Callis has resigned.
May 5, 2013 - 10:17 a.m.•By SARA BURNETT - Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Lawmakers return to Springfield with two options on the table for addressing Illinois' $97 billion pension problem.
May 5, 2013 - 5:30 a.m.•By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
BLOOMINGTON – The party – or at least the party bus – may be over in one central Illinois community.
May 5, 2013 - 5:30 a.m.•By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROCKFORD – The state environmental agency said electronics manufacturers have recycled 50 percent more electronic waste since Illinois made it illegal to dispose of the material in landfills.
