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The Illinois Hospital Association says Gov. Pat Quinn's proposed cut to Medicaid spending would result in hospital layoffs and closures.

Illinois Republicans are criticizing Gov. Pat Quinn's budget address as short on specifics and light on job creation.

Gov. Pat Quinn says Illinois must act now on fixing government pension systems, but he isn't proposing a solution.

Gov. Pat Quinn has officially announced his proposal to close 14 major state facilities, including two prisons.

Wildlife researchers say a fungus rarely seen in the wild is killing southern Illinois rattlesnakes that already are in decline.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn wants to close two prisons, including a "super max" institution at Tamms.

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin says Republicans in the U.S. House should start over rather than push forward with a troubled bill on long-term funding for transportation.

Members of Illinois' congressional delegation are promoting changes to a U.S. House transportation bill they say would deprive the state of millions in highway funds and jeopardize Chicago's transit system.

Gov. Pat Quinn says he deserves a better grade on his job-creation policies than the C given to him by the head of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce.

Gov. Pat Quinn has asked all the state's constitutional offices and some state agencies to slash their annual budgets by at least 9 percent, but won't say how he arrived at that figure.

Authorities say one man is dead and two others injured after an early-morning accident near the campus of Northern Illinois University.

Chicago is among the final stops of the North American tour of "Riverdance."

Chicago's McCormick Place convention center will hold an indoor 5K run this month to raise awareness and money for efforts to prevent heart disease.

Since World War II, only two men - both Democrats - have represented the congressional district that runs from the St. Louis suburbs to Illinois' southernmost tip.

State and local officials have organized an "energy fair" in Chicago to help homeowners learn services available to them for improving energy efficiency.

Republican lawmakers in a handful of states are opening another front in the war against President Obama's health care overhaul, seizing on the hot-button issue of birth control with bills that would allow insurance companies to ignore new federal rules requiring them to cover contraception.

Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk has started walking exercises on a treadmill as he continues his recovery from a stroke in January.

The state of Illinois is calling all green thumbs.

A published report says Sears is laying off 100 workers at its Illinois headquarters.

Officials say fewer voters are registered in suburban Cook County than during the 2008 general election as the Feb. 21 deadline for registering approaches.

On Valentine's Day, Paul Wallace wasn't focused on giving his wife chocolates or flowers. The southwestern Illinois man gave her best friend a kidney instead.

Illinois officials say the state stands to lose $900 million in federal funding for highways if a Republican-led transportation bill passes in the House this week. The changes could also jeopardize critical long-term investment needed to maintain Chicago's transit system, the second largest in the nation.