Illinois Public Media News

Reilly O'Toole passed for 147 yards and Illinois took advantage of five Northwestern turnovers for a 47-33 victory over its in-state and Big Ten rival on Saturday.

A court in Egypt dismissed murder charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of hundreds of anti-government protesters during a 2011 Arab Spring uprising that ousted the long-time strongman.

More than a dozen people protesting a grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown have been arrested outside of the Ferguson Police Department.

Rayvonte Rice and Malcolm Hill each scored 17 points to lead Illinois to a 62-54 win over Baylor in the championship game of the Las Vegas Invitational on Friday night.

Syrian rebels backed by the United States are making their biggest gains yet in an area south of the capital, Damascus.  

Illinois’s men’s basketball squad meets Baylor Friday night at the Las Vegas Invitational, after their 88-62 Thanksgiving Day win over Indiana State.

Researchers say an experimental Ebola vaccine appears safe and has triggered signs of immune protection in the first 20 volunteers to test it.  

Governor Pat Quinn granted clemency to 126 Illinois prisoners Wednesday, ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Authorities in Danville are investigating the death of William Newbern as a homicide.

Champaign City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday night to pledge $50,000 a year for five years, if the IHSA moves the state boys' high school basketball tournament back to the State Farm Center.