Illinois Government News

A Democratic official says Roland Burris will not run for a full Senate term in 2010.

Pennsylvania Representative Patrick Murphy, who in 2006 was the first Iraq veteran to be elected to Congress, has taken up sponsorship of a bill that would repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The bill's original sponsor, Ellen Tauscher, has left Congress to accept a post in the Obama administration, reported Philadelphia newspaper The Intelligencer in ...

A southwestern Illinois man is jailed on $500,000 after being accused of breaking an infant's ribs.

University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman testified Monday that he had the best interests of the school in mind when he pushed for admitting politically connected, underqualified applicants.

An audit has harsh conclusions for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, saying his administration showed "a lack of due diligence" when granting $1 million promised to a church that ended up with a private school in downtown Chicago.

State Sen. Kirk Dillard is running for Illinois governor. Dillard made it official Wednesday at a news conference in the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale.

John Harris, the chief of staff under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has followed through on his promise to plead guilty and support the prosecution's case against the former governor.

An aide says Illinois' powerful attorney general, Lisa Madigan, has decided not to run for governor or U.S. Senate.

Unable to agree with legislative leaders on how to clean up the state's budget mess, Gov.

Sen. Dick Durbin has sent President Barack Obama his short list of the people he thinks should be the U.S. attorneys and marshals for central and southern Illinois.

Chrysler plans to restart production at a northern Illinois plant and is recalling hundreds of workers.

The state of Illinois is starting the process of laying off 2,600 employees to help balance the state budget.

A cement company has closed a piece of the Vermilion River in north-central Illinois that's popular with whitewater rafters.

Share + Jul 6, 2009 5:47 pm US/Central 1 of 1 Gov. Pat Quinn takes his veto stamp to the budget plan submitted to him by Illinois lawmakers on July 1, 2009.

State official are investigating an accident at a central Illinois fireworks show that injured at least three people.

Cedar Rapids police have arrested a Hawaii woman after officials say she drove a stolen car from Illinois around a barricade at a deadly accident.

Authorities say a 57-year-old southern Illinois man died in a weekend accident involving a chain saw on his property.

Police are planning a big speeding crackdown for the long 4th of July weekend, one of the busiest travel times of the year, and they plan to use one of their favorite weapons: speed cameras.

Illinois got a new governor six months ago, but sometimes it seems little else has changed in state government.

Salena Zito covers politics for the Trib. She can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7879. Thanks to vacancies created by last fall's election, then-president-elect Barack Obama faced the drama of finding credible, re-electable bodies to fill those seats.