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A pathogenic crop disease has officially arrived in central Illinois, with the potential to rival the dreaded corn rootworm as a top corn yield-robber.

There's more water flowing through the Illinois and upper Mississippi rivers now than in the past few decades.

The attorney representing convicted murderer Chester Weger said new genetic evidence may help clear his client of the 1960 murders of three women in Starved Rock State Park.

Three separate state agencies are responsible for doling out funding for pre-K programming in Illinois. That makes it harder for providers and parents alike to navigate the bureaucracy to obtain funding and services.

With more than 62,000 attorneys registered to practice in Illinois, it might seem like there's plenty of legal representation to go around. But that statistic masks a severe shortage of solo practitioners.

Duckworth said the biggest killer of children under the age of 16 is gun violence in the United States.

Illinois foster families will see a big bump in monthly support payments from state.

Is bad branding what's keeping Asian carp from meeting its full potential as a food source? The Illinois Department of Natural Resources believes a new name could net the invasive fish a new place on thousands of dinner tables.

Former Vice President Mike Pence presented a bullish forecast for Republican chances up and down the ballot in the upcoming 2022 elections during a speech largely bereft of direct references to former President Donald Trump, or the January 6, 2021 insurrection on Capitol Hill.

With the spring waterfowl migration complete and warmer, drier weather in place, state veterinarian Dr. Mark Ernst is optimistic that the risk for transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza will be significantly lower, with youth poultry competitions and live sales allowed to resume.