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URBANA, Ill. — University of Illinois President B. Joseph White on Monday told a commission investigating the effect of politics on school admissions that he found an environment in which who you know and what you can offer matter to a shocking degr

Several Midwest governors are meeting in Chicago to talk high-speed trains.

Convenience store operator QuikTrip Corp. is paying current and former employees in nine states nearly $750,000 in overtime back wages following an investigation by the Labor Department.

BELLEVILLE, Ill. — St. Clair County taxpayers already have spent $275,000 in legal and consulting fees in the county's four-year effort to close a shooting range it argues is too close to Scott Air Force Base.

A nearly 5-week-old infant has died after falling off a third-story porch on Chicago's South Side.

OTTAWA, Ill. — Police and LaSalle County Animal Control are investigating the deaths of about six dozen birds outside an Ottawa hotel.

URBANA, Ill. — Former University of Illinois president James Stukel places much of the blame for the school's admissions troubles on trustees who he says are beholden only to the governor who appoints them.

A judge has denied bail for an 85-year-old prisoner caught on tape talking about his ties to Al Capone and other old-time mobsters.

Allstate Corp. is ending its sponsorship of the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard following a five-year sponsorship run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Public schools in Illinois spent $9,555 per pupil in 2007, slightly below the national average.