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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A judge has increased bond to $100,000 for an Illinois insurance executive accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews.... Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the seat once held by Barack Obama. The committee recommended no action beyond the letter.... Read More
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Peoria authorities have filed criminal charges against a brother- and sister-in-law accused of helping hide one of two escaped inmates from the Peoria County Jail earlier this week.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Step outside Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios and into the near west side neighborhood that's been home to her television talk show for two decades, and it's easy to get a sense of what she's meant to Chicago.... Read More
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) -- Hannah Tuomi had 20 points and eight rebounds as No. 22 Vanderbilt beat Southern Illinois 90-64 Wednesday night.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- The FAA says the failed computers that delayed flights across the country are working again.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Mentally ill residents of nursing homes often don't know their rights - and some Illinois nursing homes aren't telling them.... Read More
ATLANTA (AP) -- When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.... Read More
PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona Diamondbacks traded two minor leaguers to the Chicago Cubs on Thursday in exchange for reliever Aaron Heilman.... Read More
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- St. Louis Rams defensive end C.J. Ah You has been lost for the season with a knee injury.... Read More
BENTON, Ill. (AP) -- Three defendants allegedly involved in a child abduction case have entered not guilty pleas to that related charges.... Read More
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) -- The way the Bears are struggling, Pro Bowl linebacker Lance Briggs can understand why fans around Chicago would have their doubts.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez has fired two investigators who let convicted robber Robert Maday escape earlier this fall.... Read More
MIDLOTHIAN, Ill. (AP) -- Authorities say the commander of a VFW post in Chicago's southern suburbs has died of injuries suffered when he was beaten and robbed while depositing money from a veterans' fundraiser.... Read More
ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) -- A 63-year-old Aurora man faces as long as 37 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a child he was baby sitting.... Read More
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- A federal grand jury in Peoria has once again indicted a former prep basketball talent analyst on bank robbery charges.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Public health officials in Chicago say more than 75,000 people have been vaccinated for swine flu.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Republican members of Congress from Illinois have a few questions for Gov. Pat Quinn about possibly using a state prison to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- The University of Illinois at Chicago has named a new head of the economics department.... Read More
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois motorists have been urged to start getting ready for winter driving.... Read More
GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) -- A western Illinois college is racking up Fulbright Scholar grants.... Read More
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- The nation's military academies are trying to increase diversity to boost the number of minorities in the officers' ranks.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Fans who'll be in the audience at "The Oprah Winfrey Show" say they're excited to be on hand to hear the media mogul talk about what she plans for the future.... Read More
CAIRO, Ill. (AP) -- Authorities say two women found dead in a burning house in the far southern Illinois town of Cairo had been fatally shot.... Read More
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -- Sentencing will be in March for three Illinoisans swept up in the largest dogfighting raid in U.S. history.... Read More
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -- Authorities say an East St. Louis store clerk being robbed by six armed men opened fire, killing one of the suspects.... Read More
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Federal officials say the despised Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent it from invading the Great Lakes and jeopardizing their $7 billion sport fishery.... Read More
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois is reporting nine new deaths and 241 new hospitalizations from swine flu.... Read More
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- A southwestern Illinois coroner's jury says a man's shooting death was a homicide, but the suspect no longer faces murder charges.... Read More
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Business appears to be slowly improving in rural areas of 11 Midwest and Plains states, but the economy there remains weak, according to a new survey of bankers.... Read More
ROYALTON, Ill. (AP) -- An underground southern Illinois coal mine will close by the end of the year.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision.... Read More
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky appeals court upheld a $6.1 million award to a woman who was forced to strip in a McDonald's restaurant office after someone called posing as a police officer.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn says the public admonishment of U.S. Sen. Roland Burris by the Senate Ethics Committee "speaks for itself."... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says he hopes Oprah Winfrey doesn't leave Chicago.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- A leading Democratic candidate for Illinois governor says his proposal for addressing crime statewide includes better tracking of statistics and coordination between agencies.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- A Republican congressman from Illinois said Tuesday that his comment that suspected terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay follow a "savage religion" has been misinterpreted.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Cubs and left-handed reliever John Grabow have agreed to a two-year contract.... Read More
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- A state senator from Peoria says he fought off an armed robber who interrupted him while he was doing some remodeling at his business.... Read More
TAMMS, Ill. (AP) -- Although he's confined to his cell for all but about an hour on most days, Steven Wuebbels doesn't mind being isolated at Illinois' lone "supermax" prison - a place human rights activists consider inhumane.... Read More
HERSCHER, Ill. (AP) -- The home-invading Christmas elf has been identified, and it turns out to be a teenage prankster.... Read More
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- It seemed Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald was talking about the same player as he analyzed first his own quarterback, Mike Kafka, and then the one the Wildcats must contain Saturday - No. 17 Wisconsin's Scott Tolzien.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- A new law will help the state get more federal money to pay hospitals that care for the poor.... Read More
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Friendship goes out the window Sunday when the St. Louis Rams' Leonard Little tries to sack his friend, Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal grand jury has indicted 15 alleged members of the La Familia Michoacana (MEE'-chu-a-kah-nah), a violence-prone Mexican cartel that has flooded American cities with millions of dollars worth of drugs.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says Oprah Winfrey has been a "tremendous asset" to Chicago and he's saddened to hear her show will end.... Read More
MIAMI (AP) -- A Miami federal judge has imposed a 13 1/2-year sentence on the convicted ringleader of a plot to stage terror attacks against Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices.... Read More
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- State Sen. Dave Koehler was attacked by a gunman who wanted more than cash from the Peoria Democrat.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- Funeral services have been set for former Chicago Board of Education President Michael Scott.... Read More
CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago police sergeant who heads a local sergeants association has been arrested on charges he stole more than $600,000 from the organization.... Read More
