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A former Chicago-area man who was mistakenly released from Cook County Jail is back in custody and awaiting transport to Mississippi to finish a prison term.

ALTON, Ill. — A Canadian company could get more time under federal legislation to do what developers have proposed for two decades near Alton but never done — turning a Mississippi River lock-and-dam into a source of electricity.

A man who stopped his car briefly near Oak and Larrabee Street was shot multiple times by a man who walked up to the car, police said.

White Sox shortstop Alexei Ramirez left Wednesday's game against Minnesota because of a likely sprained right ankle.

On a scale of zero to 100, it can't get worse than the big goose egg.

State officials say hundreds of Illinois schools are getting $3.6 million to improve cafeterias.

The Chicago-Naperville-Joliet metropolitan area had the highest home foreclosure rate in Illinois for the first half of the year.

The Illinois Student Assistance Commission says the state will deny about 130,000 financial aid applications to college students for the upcoming academic year.

WASHINGTON PARK, Ill. — Authorities in the southwestern Illinois town of Washington Park are investigating the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy whose mother claims he died as part of an argument over shoes.

Camille Lowry, mother of prominent Chicago attorney James H. Lowry, has died.