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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois residents don't have the right to record audio of their conversations with police, a law that some state legislators say needs to be changed, especially with the likelihood of protests at this spring's NATO and G8 summits in Chicago.

Here's a neat trick: Next time you're in the company of an Illinois school official mention the General Assembly and be prepared for an earful.

Phil Rock, who was president of the Illinois Senate from 1979 to 1993, has co-written a book which tells how he tried to do things the right way.

Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry told POLITICO he will likely appeal an FCC decision to keep his graphic presidential campaign ad featuring images of fetus parts off NBC's Chicago station during Sunday's Super Bowl.

Southern Illinois is on a major faultline, and there is a 25 to 40 percent probability that an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 or higher will hit the central United States in the next 50 years.

By CHRISTOPHER WILLS Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Gov. Pat Quinn took a shotgun approach to his State of the State address last week, firing a wide blast that hit on topics from jobs to education to mortgages.

Michael Foods says it's recalling buckets of hard-cooked eggs in brine sold for institutional use from its Wakefield, Neb., facility due to potential Listeria.

Given the state's financial predicament, lawmakers will need to consider every possible strategy for cutting the state's Medicaid budget this year, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Director Julie Hamos says.

The Carbondale Police Department and Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Department of Public Safety are investigating a robbery that occurred early Saturday morning near University Hall.

The defense attorney for 1 of 2 men charged with killing five members of a central Illinois family wants to withdraw from the case.

The audience applauds during the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights 2nd Annual Immigration Integration Summit at Malcom X College on Saturday.

They're all veteran lawyers, longtime judges in their early 60s. And they're all women, although there's nothing particularly ladylike about the political brawl in which they're now engaged.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois will participate in a multistate earthquake drill next week as part of earthquake preparedness month.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will give $2.5 million to 17 fire departments and fire protection districts in Illinois to help them improve their fire response capabilities.

It's called "Outside the Walls: Life Beyond HIV." Its goal is to educate prisoners about re-entry programs for ex-offenders living with HIV/AIDS. The Department of Corrections also will use the video to encourage offenders to know their HIV status through testing that's available during their incarceration.

In this Sept. 6, 2011. file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn welcomes back schoolchildren on the first day of classes in Chicago.

Chief Justice Thomas L. Kilbride announced on Tuesday that the Illinois Supreme Court has approved the application from the 14th Judicial Circuit in northwestern Illinois to allow news media cameras in trial courtrooms in the state for the first time.

The former congresswoman and one-time Mary Kay saleswoman dashed up to the pulpit of the black megachurch and offered stories of growing up poor and raising two children on her own as she tried to win the congregation's support for her bid to unseat Rep.

Authorities in western Illinois are investigating the death of a 75-year-old Monmouth woman who was struck by a vehicle while using her motorized wheelchair.

Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.