A painting in the Illinois governor’s mansion long believed to depict Mary Todd Lincoln turns out to tell a different story.

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Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln Is Deemed a Hoax

Officials and residents in the Mississippi River flood plain known as the American Bottom say the Army Corps of Engineers overreacted after Hurricane Katrina.

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Illinois’s Metro East Disputes Levees’ ‘Unacceptable’ Rating

Mark Steven Kirk, who won President Obama’s Senate seat in 2010, was admitted to a Chicago-area hospital over the weekend after suffering a stroke.

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The Caucus: Illinois Senator Kirk Hospitalized Following Stroke

Rod R. Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, will go to jail for corruption, including trying to sell the Senate seat that President Obama left behind.

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Blagojevich Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

Investigators examining the 2008 push by Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. to take Barack Obama’s Senate seat found “probable cause” that the Illinois Democrat directed one of his supporters to raise money in exchange for an appointment to the Senate, an investigative report shows.

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The Caucus: Ethics Office Releases Report on Jackson’s Push for Senate Seat

A class-action suit filed in Illinois claims the N.C.A.A. has been negligent regarding awareness and treatment of brain injuries to athletes.

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College Players Move Concussions Issue Into the Courtroom

Mr. Percy was a moderate Republican who clashed with President Richard M. Nixon over Watergate and whose own presidential ambitions were stymied by Nixon’s resignation.

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Charles Percy, Former Illinois Senator, Is Dead at 91

A raft of subpoenas indicate that the defense is researching the backgrounds of many of the defendant’s relatives from Illinois, all on his mother’s side.

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Loughner’s Lawyers Seem to Search His Family Tree for Mental Illness

Massachusetts has joined New York and Illinois in refusing to participate in a fingerprint-sharing program that is central to the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement strategy.

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Immigration Program Is Rejected by Third State

The first cross examination of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich got off to a good start, with Assistant U.S. Attorney Reid Schar asking, “You are a convicted liar, correct?” Blagojevich answered yes, but proceeded to dance around every other…

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Blagojevich Spars With Prosecutor

An Illinois legislator has proposed removing the tax deduction for parents of obese children.

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Economix: Taxing Parents of Obese Children

In a bid to save the small town of Cairo, Illinois, a levee was breached at the convergence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers late Monday night, and as of Tuesday the situation has definitely improved, with local Ohio River levels dropping a foot…

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Levee Breach Saves Illinois Town

The Army Corps of Engineers will destroy a levee to ease the bloated Mississippi River upstream, officials said.

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Officials Will Blow Up Missouri Levee Late Monday

Residents of the southern Illinois town of Cairo are being told to evacuate as river water is flooding the ground behind the town levee, “kind of like Old Faithful.” Overnight thunderstorms dropped more rain on the soaked town, worrying emergency…

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IL Town Evacuated Ahead of Levee Breach

An education bill passed by the Illinois Senate gives Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel a weapon to improve schools.

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Chicago News Cooperative: Emanuel Gets Boost, and Challenges, in Schools Bill