Illinois Public Media News

The Chicago Bears have fired general manager Phil Emery and coach Marc Trestman after missing the playoffs for the seventh time in the past eight years. 

Inspector Morse to Sherlock - and Brideshead to Downton - for many PBS fans, Sunday night is appointment viewing.

The defense attorney for former Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White says he will keep fighting the voter fraud convictions that forced him from office.

Passengers are telling of a harrowing day and night on board a burning ferry off the coast of Albania. 

The president of the U of I's Campus Faculty Association said the report by the school’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure is a “bombshell and a game changer."

Search operations have been suspended for the night for an AirAsia plane with 162 aboard that lost contact with air traffic control after takeoff from Indonesia on a flight to Singapore, the Singapore Civil Aviation Authority reports.

 Thousands of police officers and community members are expected to attend the funeral of a New York City policeman killed with his partner in an ambush shooting.

A few big plays thwarted Illinois’ hopes for an upset victory in a postseason bowl game.

A vigil and a march in Berkeley, Mo., were largely peaceful overnight after confrontations between police and protesters Tuesday in the wake of the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old black man by a white police officer.

The Illini will need a little more late-season magic to close out 2014 with a victory. Illinois won the last two games of the regular season to secure Friday's bowl apperance in Dallas.