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Gray, who came to Springfield in 1966, helped launched the club in 2005.

Longtime Peoria Congressman Bob Michel has died. He led the House Republican caucus during a more congenial era in American politics.Michel was House…

One reporter outside Prince's Paisley Park compound near Minneapolis said "even the journalists are hugging each other" after learning that Prince had died.

Illinois’ longest-serving state Senate president died Friday. He was 78.Philip Rock, a Democrat from Oak Park who had once given serious consideration to…

Thomas Fitzgerald, a judge who had a leading role in the aftermath of some of Illinois’ most notorious political scandals, died on Sunday at his home in…

A former governor of Illinois has died. Dan Walker ran the state for one term in the 1970s. A Democrat, he focused much of his brief political career on…

Former Illinois Gov. Dan Walker has died. The Democrat led the state from 1973 to 1977.Walker came to fame in 1971 by literally walking the length of…

Illinois state Comptroller Judy BaarTopinka has died from complications following a stroke. She was 70.Topinka’s career spanned more than three decades in…

The third president of then-Sangamon State University, who helped found what is now the Center for State Policy and Leadership in 1989, died Saturday, May…

Longtime U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde died November 29. He was 83.Some three weeks prior, President George W. Bush awarded Hyde the Presidential Medal of Freedom,…