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Caterpillar Drops Boy Scouts Support Over Gay Ban
(CHAMPAIGN, Ill.) — Caterpillar Inc. is no longer giving money to the Boy Scouts because the organization discriminates against homosexuals, a spokeswoman for...
Ill. Passes Nation’s Toughest Fracking Regulations
Illinois lawmakers approved a measure Friday to create the nation's strictest regulations for high-volume oil and gas drilling
Ill. House Approves Guns Plan Opposed by Governor
(SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) — Gun owners could carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the last state in the nation to prohibit it, under legislation that swept through the...
Illinois State Police: 5 Killed in I-70 Van Crash
(ST. LOUIS) — Authorities say a van carrying church members returning from a California religious gathering careened off of a southern Illinois freeway and...
Why is Texas Governor Rick Perry in Illinois?
Like an aging rocker, Texas Governor Rick Perry is currently on the 2013 I'm Coming For Your Jobs tour across America. His first stop: California a couple months...
Photo Essays
LIFE With Hillary Clinton: Portraits of a College Grad, 1969
Long before Yale Law, before Arkansas, before marriage to Bill, the Senate, the White House, her own (first?) run for the White House, the State Department and...
Flooding Swamps the Midwest
Torrential rains across the central United States forced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to close about a dozen locks on the Illinois River and the Mississippi...
