By The Associated Press
A proposal that revamps sex education in Illinois public schools to include information about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases has cleared the state Senate.
By The Associated Press, with addtional reporting from Illinois Public Media
The Schnucks supermarket chain wants an Illinois lawsuit related to a security breach affecting up to 2.4 million credit and debit cards of its customers moved to a federal court.
By Nancy Marshall-Genzer and Katie Long, The Marketplace Morning Report
Daniel Werfel starts Wednesday as the new acting administrator of the Internal Revenue Service, succeeding Steven T. Miller, who resigned under pressure last week.
By The Associated Press
The IRS official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups has told Congress she did nothing wrong and invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions.
By The Associated Press
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton is urging a House vote on his pension-reform plan even though Speaker Michael Madigan has his own proposal.
By Mark Memmott
In Orlando, Fla., early Wednesday "an FBI agent was involved in a deadly shooting connected to the Boston Marathon bombing case," NBC News is reporting. A man who was being questioned by the agent is dead. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston and Carrie Johnson have also confirmed the news.
By The Associated Press
Like anything that's 117 years old, the telescope in the University of Illinois' observatory could use a little work. This summer, it will get it.
By Bill Wheelhouse
As Congress fiddles with major farm legislation, there is a portion of it that gets very little attention. Yet supporters say it is a difference-maker for job creation in small rural communities and provides a boost those towns need.
By Amanda Vinicky
A Democratic state senator who compared Governor Pat Quinn to Hitler is apologizing for his remarks.
By The Associated Press
Star linebacker Brian Urlacher says he's retiring after spending 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears.
