GOP lukewarm toward Keyes
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes finished a booming stemwinder of a speech to his party's State Central Committee here on Thursday, then stepped away from the podium to find...
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Governor restores student grants
After fretting for months about whether they would receive college tuition scholarships, several hundred aspiring teachers learned that their state scholarship program will get funded. Gov. Rod Blagojevich had proposed...
Ryan quits race
Beleaguered Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Jack Ryan ended his campaign Friday, leaving his party scrambling to find a replacement with enough money and magnetism to mount a serious challenge against...
Ryan quits race
Beleaguered Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Jack Ryan ended his campaign Friday, leaving his party scrambling to find a replacement with enough money and magnetism to mount a serious challenge against...
Governor plans for shutdown
The battle among Democrats to craft a new state budget intensified Tuesday as the Blagojevich administration began forging contingency plans for a government shutdown and House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago)...
Governor in crossfire on guns
Buffeted for days by growing criticism from Mayor Richard Daley and other Chicago Democrats, Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday proposed a statewide assault-weapons ban as he tried to placate gun-control...
Ryan pal lied to grand jury, U.S. alleges
Another key member of former Gov. George Ryan's kitchen cabinet was indicted Wednesday, hit by federal perjury charges for allegedly lying to a grand jury about pocketing a $50,000 lobbying...
State ends doctors’ execution role
A measure signed into law by Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Thursday will take doctors out of the execution process in Illinois. The law currently requires that a physician be on...
Fitzgerald is back at square 1
A year after an acrimonious fight to install an aggressive and independent U.S. attorney for southern Illinois, her surprise resignation means that Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) has to start that...
Judge blocks SBC rate law
A federal judge, harshly critical of the General Assembly and Gov. Rod Blagojevich for overstepping their authority, on Monday ordered a halt to the big increase in phone rates SBC...