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The State of Illinois News page provides access to the Illinois Government News Network and all state press releases.2.9

A Chicago-area man once charged with soliciting a child for sex has been held for more than six years without pleading guilty to a crime or being convicted of one under a little used civil procedure, ...2.7

Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday asked Illinois' attorney general to investigate possible price gouging at gas stations as Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast, a crucial area for U.S. oil and natural gas ...2.7

MOUNT VERNON - Continental Tire North America, one of Southern Illinois' largest employers, received a shot in the arm Monday morning when Gov.3.1

The heart of Illinois took a direct hit from Katrina Monday - not with her high winds and rain - but with her impact on the price at the pump.2.7

By WENDY MARGOLIN Staff Writer During the first two weeks of August, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago led three missions of non-Jewish influentials to Israel.2.7

The United States and Ukraine signed an agreement here Monday designed to stem the threat of bioterrorism by placing safeguards on deadly pathogens dating from a Soviet-era biological weapons program that could ...5.7

Katrina's unforgiving wrath sent hundreds of thousands of people scrambling from the Gulf Coast.2.9

SPRINGFIELD The Illinois Department of Transportation executive at the center of an investigation into a power-cleaning contract has resigned.2.7

President Bush, as he readied the federal government for a massive relief effort, on Sunday urged people in the path of Hurricane Katrina to forget anything but their safety and move to higher ground as ...1.3

State Sen. Rick Winkel's decision last week to not seek re-election has Illinois Democrats thinking the Land of Lincoln soon could become an even darker shade of blue.2.7

Area lawmakers are in agreement with calls for Gov. Rod Blagojevich to schedule a special session ... State Sen. Dale Risinger said a special session wouldn't be a bad idea.2.7

ION, Ill. A southern Illinois man is undergoing rabies treatment after being bitten by a bat earlier this week.3.1

University of Illinois researchers have developed new ways to get DNA to self-assemble into various kinds of structures.2.7

A statewide prison partnership marks 10 years of success for the "Building Homes, Rebuilding Lives" program.2.7

Plan could slash med mal premiums for W.Va. med schools Md. insurer say malpractice payouts dropped in 2005 Wis.2

Greater Rockford Airport will receive $1 million for marketing and air-service development from the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Rep.2.7

Victims of medical negligence blasted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's signing Thursday of a reform bill ... Caps devastate victims of medical malpractice but do not bring down the cost of health care, do not lower insurance rates for doctors and will do nothing to keep physicians in Illinois," Hard said.2.7

The Base Realignment and Closure Commission has gotten legal opinions, including one from the Justice Department, saying it can take the action, although its own general counsel says it cannot.2.7

When U.S. Sen. Barack Obama filled the tank of his flexible-fuel sport-utility vehicle with E85 at a Decatur gas station last week, farmers, ethanol producers, and even oil companies made money.2.7

The few rows of grapes planted about six years ago near the high school's greenhouse in this tiny southern Illinois town used to give agriculture teacher Howard Heavner and his students fits.3.1

CHICAGO The trial of a state lawmaker accused of using a fake address has been delayed after a Cook County judge ordered that she undergo a mental exam.2.7

PEORIA - A day after narrowly escaping a buyout scenario, Illinois American Water President Terry Gloriod said he'd like to find a permanent solution.2.7

As part of an ongoing series of articles we will be highlighting the competitive open seats and incumbent races in next year's House elections.2.7

Speech communication professor Kristen Harrison's latest study on media effects on children and adolescents finds that 78 percent of the food advertised during TV programs children ages 6 to 11 watch most is ...2.9

A two-car crash killed an employee of a Terre Haute, Ind., radio station and her 13-year-old daughter, police said.3.1

IFI CALLS ON ILLINOIS TOURISM BUREAU TO REJECT $450,00 'GAY GAMES' APPLICATION AS 'COLOSSAL WASTE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS' by MONTANA NEWS CHICAGO, Aug.2.7

A new state law will demand greater fiscal accountability from court-appointed defense lawyers in death penalty cases.2.7

State Rep. Jack Franks' proposed back-to-school sales-tax holiday seemed to be crying out to be mocked.2

Gov. Rod Blagojevich has given some Illinois pet owners something new to growl about.4.6

Illinois State Senator James Meeks has taken the issue of racial profiling by the Chicago police to the airwaves.2.9

Everyone now eligible for Medicare will have to make some decisions by the end of the year on the new Medicare prescription drug benefit.2.7

Illinois high-school seniors graduating in the top 5 percent of their class were denied $1,000 in Illinois Student Assistance Commission merit-based scholarships this year.

For thousands of Illinois college students, a short ride to home cooking and free washers and dryers is just blocks away aboard Amtrak trains that rumble past nearly a dozen campuses across the state.5.2