Illinois Public Media News

Indiana Supreme Court Justice Loretta Rush has been chosen to lead the court as the state's first female chief justice.

Illinois State University is expecting a large incoming freshman class this year - the biggest in a couple of decades, according to one campus official.

In what's believed to be the largest stockpile of stolen Internet credentials in history, a Russian hacking ring has gathered more than 1.2 billion unique Internet credentials, according to Web security experts.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says he is pleased by Walgreen Co.'s apparent decision to keep its headquarters in Illinois. But the Democrat said pressure should be put on other businesses considering a move overseas to lower their tax burdens.

Until this year, the world had recorded 1,640 deaths from Ebola since the virus was discovered in 1976.  Then Ebola appeared in West Africa.

A book that Abraham Lincoln read and signed has lingered long unrecognized on the shelves of the Vespasian Warner Public Library in Clinton.

Illinois for the first time is making public the official forms filed by insurance companies when they set the rates they'll charge consumers.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Illinois' corn and soybean crops are faring well, and 81 and 77 percent respectively.

An administrative law judge says Southern Illinois University officials in Carbondale bargained in bad faith with unions and owes 1,500 current and former employees $1.9 million in back pay.

An attacker wearing an Afghan military uniform opened fire at service members of the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing a U.S. major general.