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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says students who attended the failed Everest Colleges should not have to repay federal student loans.Click to Continue »

Two 34-year-old men have been accused in the death of a 33-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, woman 17 years ago.Click to Continue »

Leaders of Lindenwood University have selected Michael D. Shonrock as its new president.Click to Continue »

A land-managers' organization says farmland prices fell across much of Illinois in 2014 but more sharply in the eastern part of the state than other areas.Click to Continue »

A woman with 15 years of local government experience has been named Bloomington's city clerk.Click to Continue »

A memorial has been scheduled for a Buffalo Grove police dog that died of cancer this week.Click to Continue »

Questions persist about the shooting death of a black South Carolina motorist after the release of dashboard video of a traffic stop that led to a white officer being charged…Click to Continue »

As North Charleston surged in population last decade, South Carolina's third-largest city fought rising crime through a simple policing solution: be aggressive. But the city's police department lost the respect…Click to Continue »

A Chicago-based medical marijuana cultivation facility has accepted a license to operate offered by the state of Illinois.Click to Continue »

A former suburban Chicago associate pastor has been sentenced to ten years in prison for sexually assaulting a minor girl he met through a church-sponsored youth group.Click to Continue »