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CHARLESTON, Ill. — An eastern Illinois man already in prison for child sexual assault and child pornography convictions has pleaded guilty to molesting three young girls.

ALSIP, Ill. — Authorities say they've completed the evidence gathering part of their investigation of an alleged scheme to dig up bodies and resell burial plots at a historic Black cemetery.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois has a new Web site to update motorists on statewide road construction sites.

A state task force studying ways to better regulate cemeteries will hold its second public meeting Thursday evening at a South Side high school.

A state panel investigating the role of clout in getting unqualified students into the University of Illinois is expected to release its findings Thursday, including a recommendation that Gov. Pat Quinn ask for the resignations of all U of I trustees.

Jury selection has started in the case of a man charged in the 1993 murders of seven people at a suburban Chicago fast food restaurant.

One of the focal points at last week's National Urban League convention, held here at the McCormick Place Convention Center, was how the upcoming census will affect the Black community.

The battle to bring a second Walmart in the city has been put on the back burner again by the City Council. This time, no council action will occur until the city finds out in October whether or not the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics Games will take

Authorities have charged a 23-year-old Chicago man in the stabbing death of his 88-year-old grandfather in the southern suburb of Richton Park.

Marcella Reddick set out to tell the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack about the benevolence of the urban gardening program she started on the city’s South Side. Vilsack was in town for a town hall meeting at the Rainbow/PUSH Conv