Christi Parsons

The Illinois Department of Public Aid will continue to pay for abortions for poor women whose health is endangered by pregnancy because of Gov. Jim Edgar's decision Tuesday to veto...

Ignoring Gov. Jim Edgar's desire to wait, House Republicans pressed their case for property-tax relief Thursday while Democrats argued the GOP proposal curries favor with the rich and fails to...

Even though he was convicted of taking bribes in June of last year, former Ald. Jesse Evans continued to serve on the Chicago City Council for four months before resigning...

Four years after the state granted $500,000 to a Chicago group to revitalize a blighted strip on the West Side, state officials are demanding some of the money back. Officials...

Gov. Jim Edgar on Wednesday made another pitch to be remembered as the education governor, using his final State of the State address to urge tomorrow's lawmakers to fix the...

When after months of debate, the Illinois legislature passed a plan last week to funnel more money to public schools and Gov. Jim Edgar signed it, many officials rushed to...

As soon as the General Assembly approved a plan to funnel more money to public schools, McHenry County school officials began drafting wish lists. Everything from more teachers to new,...

When the legislature passed a plan last week to funnel more money to public schools and Gov. Jim Edgar signed it, most elementary school officials in the southwest suburban area...

Gurnee School District 56 Supt. Wayne Schurter says his district does not count on much help from the state, and the state has rarely done anything to change that view....

The euphoria following passage of a state school-funding plan has turned to fear for some northwest suburban school administrators who worry that promised state aid will evaporate after next school...