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A political newcomer who won the Democratic nomination for Illinois lieutenant governor says he has no intention of leaving the ticket despite new details about his 2005 arrest for allegedly holding a knife to his ...

Illinois primary voters awoke this morning to electoral confusion in President Obama's home state, facing Democratic and Republican gubernatorial races still too close to call.

Illinois Democrats are choosing Tuesday between candidates who bloodied each other in an ugly battle for the gubernatorial nomination, while optimistic Republicans are deciding who will try to seize the executive mansion from a Democratic Party weakened by infighting and scandal....

High-speed rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners of $8 billion in grants to be announced ...

Dozens of terrorism suspects will be moved to a little-used rural facility that will be acquired and upgraded by the federal government.

A storm dumped ice, snow and rain from Nebraska to Illinois, and Wisconsin and Iowa experienced record snowfalls.

Thomson Correctional Center is a top option to house Guantanamo transfers. The Obama administration says the Defense Department could hold proceedings against terrorism suspects at the rural site.

The nearly empty rural facility is being considered, an Obama administration official says. But obstacles remain, including a law that bars the detainees from the U.S.

A man who idolized American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh and a Jordanian national who frequented extremist websites ...

Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says in a new book that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wanted his help in arranging to leave the Obama administration after two years to reclaim his seat in Congress.