Illinois Public Media News

A senior adviser to University of Illinois President Robert Easter has been named CEO of the University of Illinois Hospital.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation that will allow minors with epilepsy to use medical marijuana.

Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to Egypt today in an effort to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

Olympian Drive along the north end of Champaign will be extended into the north edge of Urbana, with a two year construction project set to begin Monday.

A doctoral student from Indiana University was among those killed when Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 crashed in Ukraine.

Champaign Police are investigating an attempted robbery in the Campustown area early Friday morning, in which the victim fought back.

The Republican candidate for Illinois says he's not daunted by the state Supreme Court's decision not to review a lower court ruling barring a question on lawmaker term limits from appearing on November's ballot.

Forty-five years ago this Sunday, Apollo 11 became the first space flight to land men on the moon. At Mission Control in Houston, Gene Kranz was the man in charge.

The U.S. Sentencing Commission on Friday voted unanimously to reduce terms for drug traffickers already in prison.

After two years of debate, the U.S. Congress passed a Farm Bill this year that replaced direct subsidies to farmers with an ever increasing multi-billion dollar federal crop insurance program.