Illinois Public Media News

The unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.2 percent in Illinois last month. That's one of the country's highest jobless rates.

A new port facility for Decatur-based Archer Daniels Midland will serve as the central hub for receiving and shipping via rail.

Jury selection questionnaires are getting a face-lift in Champaign County.

When UPS told workers that it would no longer offer health coverage for spouses who had their own job-based insurance, it caused a big stir. But the shipping giant has plenty of company.

Parkland College Trustees have unanimously approved an agreement to take over the University of Illinois’ Institute of Aviation. 

The elementary school in Bement was among the schools in the region that had to send students home early during a recent heat wave.

Illinois prison officials say Danville Correctional Center is back to normal operations after more than 100 inmates were sickened, likely by a fungus.

Illinois State Police patrol officers will soon be carrying tasers with a video camera attached. 

JPMorgan Chase has agreed to acknowledge that it violated federal securities laws and will pay $920 million in penalties assessed by regulators in the U.S. and U.K. to settle charges related to the huge trading losses racked up by its London traders last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday morning.

The Federal Reserve said today that it is not slowing down its monthly purchase of $85 billion in bonds.