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SHIFTS AT THE TOPTressa Pankovits of Chicago is now press secretary for Lt. Gov. Corinne Wood. Pankovits will work out of the Chicago office. She has been…

Everybody is jumping on the clean coal bandwagon. The buzzword is clean coal, heard in the newspaper offices, radio and TV stations, township halls, city…

Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley faced no problems as he wrapped up his 12th full year in office last April. And that could be a problem.While comparisons…

As Illinois lawmakers start a long summer recess, the $53.4 billion budget they left behind for the fiscal year starting July 1 leads to an inescapable…

This is the worst outbreak since the H5N2 influenza was first detected in December. The disease has been found in seven other states over the past five months.

Up to $37 billion of that money will go toward the South Asian nation's electricity grid. But as NPR's Philip Reeves reports the challenge now is to make the projects happen.

State Sen. Ira Silverstein figured Illinois needed a new criminal law. He had heard on the evening news that a New York City real estate mogul fed and…

The last time we conducted a formal readership survey, in 1996, some of the results surprised me. I learned that almost half of you have at least a…

Illinois is building another maximum security prison.This economic development plum will go to Grayville, a tiny town on a bend in the Wabash River at the…

Even if you're not into history and couldn't care less about a funeral recreation, you still might want to know what roads will be closed for the event.…