A reputed mobster who went to federal prison in an early 1990s crackdown on suburban Chicago organized crime has been indicted along with a Cicero police officer and five others in a racketeering case.
ST. LOUIS — Tyson Foods Inc. has agreed to donate up to 1.7 million pounds of chicken to Illinois food banks to settle a lawsuit that claimed the world's biggest meat producer artificially inflated the retail weight of its poultry.
A new report estimates that Illinois spends $4.8 billion annually on substance abuse and addiction. Only 4 percent of that goes toward prevention and treatment.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois lawmakers have voted to bar people from texting or checking e-mail while driving. Now it's up to Gov. Pat Quinn to decide whether the ban will become law.
Memphis athletic director R.C. Johnson Thursday defended the Tigers men's basketball program of any wrongdoings but wouldn't confirm that Derrick Rose is the player at the center of alleged major NCAA violations.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Sen. Roland Burris says it wasn't his duty to tell a legislative committee about his conversation with the former governor's brother if lawmakers failed to ask the right questions.
