Ridgway News

Marion, May 11, 2009 - The Ameren Illinois Utilities have increased the size of their small army of field and support personnel to 1,900 people working restore service in storm ravaged Southern Illinois, where over the past 69 hours the lights have been turned back on for approximately 35,000 customers.

Branford residents, especially those previously untouched by hardship, are feeling the dramatic effects of the two-year recession.

Illinois lawmakers finished the final day of the 95th General Assembly Tuesday, passing last-minute bills on ethics, the budget and smoking and saying goodbye to colleagues leaving the legislature.

Expecting an overflow crowd, the Ridgway Borough Council has moved its regularlyscheduled monthly meeting for Monday, Jan.

Just weeks after Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced hundreds of layoffs because of the state budget mess, his administration hired 208 prison guards who don't have a prison to guard, The Associated Press has ...

Illinois officials have agreed to borrow $1.4 billion to begin paying down the state's $4 billion pile of backlogged bills.

The state wants to borrow up to $1.4 billion to help pay unpaid bills, even as the federal government approved sending more than $775 million a year over the next five years to help care for Medicaid patients.

If Illinois gets money from the federal government to help jumpstart the ailing economy, officials plan to spend it on road, bridge and transit projects.