Kate McCann

The state released a remarkably modest road-building program Monday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich insisted was ambitious in light of Illinois' severe budget deficit. Money is so tight that no funding...

The Illinois Supreme Court Friday rejected a legal assault on 133 death sentence commutations granted by then-Gov. George Ryan earlier this year, but it kept alive prosecutorial opposition to blanket...

Students at the state's nine public universities would pay annual tuition at a fixed rate for all four years of college without threat of an increase under a measure that...

The resignation of the first Hispanic to head the state's prison system left Latino lawmakers disappointed, despite a swirling controversy over alleged jail beatings that occurred while Ernesto Velasco headed...

Every insurance company that does business in Illinois would have to make public any records that show it once insured slaveholders for injury or death of their slaves under a...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich put a hold Thursday on the appointment of Ernesto "Ernie" Velasco to head the state prison system, saying he was "very troubled" by allegations that guards terrorized...

Matthew Hale, the leader of the white-supremacist World Church of the Creator, had said for years that he wasn't choosy about whom he let into his fast-growing organization. He didn't...