SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Whether delivering medicine or safety advice in the form of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," Gov. Pat Quinn's administration is getting high marks for its response to the outbreak of swine flu in Illinois.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is proposing to close tax loopholes for companies and individuals with operations or bank accounts overseas.

EVANSTON, Ill. — Faculty and students at Northwestern University have started a hunger strike in support of an American journalist imprisoned in Iran.

The Illinois EPA has a list of about 750 projects seeking some of the $180 million in federal stimulus money set aside for sewer works in the state. While no Illinois community can receive more than $10 million for such a project, the following are among

CARBON HILL, Ill. — Sewage from toilets flows in open ditches here, spilling into backyards and even onto the lone baseball diamond where children play after school. The nose-wrinkling stench carries throughout this century-old, one-diner village so

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Probable cases of swine flu in Illinois have continued their slow spread out of their original beachhead in the Chicago area.

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Shareholders of Sears Holdings Corp. will finally get to hear from the company's reclusive chairman, when Edward Lampert makes his annual address at the retailer's suburban Chicago headquarters.

O'FALLON, Ill. — Separate services are planned for a southwestern Illinois woman who was killed by her husband and for her husband who was fatally shot by police.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an undocumented immigrant who uses a phony Social Security number to get work shouldn't be considered an identity thief unless prosecutors can prove he knew the number belonged to a real person.

OAK PARK, Ill. — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn hopped on a train to drive home the message that riding public transit isn't risky to people's health.