Illinois Public Media News

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.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the leader of the Supreme Court's liberal wing, is "resting comfortably" after a heart procedure, the Court said in a statement.

Police in Ferguson, Mo., made 44 arrests after another night of protests – these much calmer than the unrest that erupted after a grand jury declined Monday to indict officer Darren Wilson.