President Bush officially has designated a 42-county section of central Illinois as the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area.

Law requires motorists to pass bicycles at a distance of at least three feet

Attorneys for Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri argued he should get at least one phone call home to his family a month as well as access to television news, religious material and letters from his family.

Despite the spikes in the cost of food — the prices of basics like eggs, milk and dairy products keep rising — the amount of aid provided to families for food has remained flat.

Police officers at Illinois universities, colleges and community colleges would be allowed to carry guns on campus, regardless of school policy, under a proposal the House of Representatives passed on Wednesday.

Most members of the Illinois House of Representatives said Wednesday they and other top state officials shouldn’t receive pay hikes anytime soon, but their paychecks could be getting bigger in a few months anyway.

Lawmakers believe any possible prison closures, not just at Pontiac, should be put on hold.

Doctors said she would be a vegetable after a car accident left her with traumatic brain injuries and in a coma. They said she should be institutionalized. Six years later, Katie Fisher, 22, will be graduating from Illinois Central College on Saturday — with honors.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s administration is canceling its plan to close part of the Stateville prison near Joliet and now wants to shut down the Pontiac Correctional Center instead.

High school's restructuring will not result in any job losses, official says.

Illinois voters won’t be asked this fall whether they think the state constitution should be rewritten to define "marriage" as only for male-female couples.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation founder, Nancy Brinker, a Peoria native, is being honored in this week’s issue of Time magazine’s, "100 Most Influential People" for 2008 for her work in the fight against breast cancer.

The normally mild-mannered state Sen. Larry Bomke called Friday for Gov. Rod Blagojevich to be impeached.

A detailed analysis and public hearings will be required before the Illinois Department of Transportation can relocate 150 Division of Traffic Safety employees to southern Illinois.

The southern Illinois city of Benton, apparently the leading candidate to become the new home of the Illinois Department of Transportation’s division of traffic safety, has no building that would accommodate the agency, according to Benton Mayor Gary Kraft.

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