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Joe House is out the door by 3 a.m. in the winter months. He departs each morning to patrol some 30 farms around Princeville, his hometown just north of…

Prisons are the economy in Vienna. Just ask Paul Gage. At age 82, he’s been mayor of that southern Illinois community of 1,500 for 35 years and is himself…

When Gov. George Ryan suspended Illinois executions more than two years ago, he cited the failure of this state’s capital punishment system to prevent…

Facing perhaps the worst fiscal crisis in state history, Illinois lawmakers chose an equally unprecedented remedy — selling long-term bonds — to help fill…

Delbert Marion feels as though he’s in the bull’s-eye. East St. Louis, where he’s the police chief, is at the center of the state’s most densely populated…

The Chicago school system will lose. City government in Decatur will feel the pinch. And the cash-strapped state of Illinois will be out hundreds of…

In 2013, the New England Patriots tight end was accused of killing the boyfriend of his fiancee's sister. A jury found him guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday.

NeoPharm Inc. has big plans for fighting cancer. And some representatives of this state’s biotechnology community have high hopes for NeoPharm. In fact,…

Amtrak’s high speed Acela Express whizzes along a stretch of track between New York and Washington, D.C., at 135 miles per hour. Passengers read or work…

Phyllis Hopwood sent all six of her children to Steward Elementary School. She has taught her neighbors’ children in the tiny schoolhouse for almost three…