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CHICAGO (AP) — A fourth teen is facing murder charges in the beating death of a Chicago high school honor student last month.

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A suburban Chicago man is reportedly one of the 13 people killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

CHICAGO (AP) — Just hours after a state board voted Wednesday to allow the enforcement of a long-debated Illinois law requiring a teenage girl's parents be notified before she has an abortion, a judge issued a temporary restraining order putting the measure back on hold.

CHARLESTON (AP) — An assistant women's basketball coach at Eastern Illinois University has died.

BENTON (AP) — An Army veteran who authorities say threatened to go on a shooting rampage at a Veterans Affairs hospital in southern Illinois has been indicted on a gun charge.

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois was cleared Wednesday to start enforcing a hotly debated law requiring that a teenage girl's parents be notified before she has an abortion, after a vote by the state's Medical Disciplinary Board.

CHICAGO – A vote by Illinois' Medical Disciplinary Board has cleared the path for the state to start enforced a hotly debated abortion notification law.

SPRINGFIELD – An Illinois lawmaker's wife will nearly double her state salary thanks to an appointment from Gov. Pat Quinn.

SPRINGFIELD – Former Illinois attorney general Jim Ryan formally launched another campaign for governor Tuesday, seven years after leaving politics following a loss to Rod Blagojevich.

CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago men charged with scheming to launch a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper also discussed an attack on a military college in India, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago zoning official has pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy, admitting he took thousands of dollars in payoffs over three years for overlooking city code violations and other favors.

CHAMPAIGN (AP) — The U.S. Army is financing a new research center at the University of Illinois to develop technology for computer networks used on battlefields and in other similarly difficult environments.

CHICAGO (AP) — Tribune Co., owner of The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and several other news outlets, will not use most Associated Press content next week to test whether the financially struggling company can do without it, according to a story on the Chicago Tribune's Web site.

CHICAGO (AP) — As Democratic leaders in Washington try to round up votes to pass health care reform legislation, U.S. Sen. Roland Burris on Monday stuck by his demand for a public option, calling any provision that would let states opt out not as strong.

CHICAGO (AP) — It's unclear if Illinois will start enforcing a hotly debated abortion notification law this week after all.

A Massachusetts tribe says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would destroy its religion.

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois hopes to save millions of dollars by releasing about 1,000 prisoners during the next few weeks, and some nonviolent inmates will be released up to a year early.

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of people on any given day will die, develop the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome or have spontaneous abortions, and that doesn't necessarily mean that their swine flu vaccination shot was to blame, a new study says.

SPRINGFIELD (AP) — The Illinois House on Thursday passed a Democrat-driven compromise that would establish Illinois' first limits on campaign donations and avoid an embarrassing failure on one of the highest-profile ethics proposals to follow the Blagojevich scandal.

PEORIA (AP) — An al-Qaida sleeper agent who admitted having contact with the alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was sentenced to more than eight years in prison on Thursday.

The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide, and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day.

A Chicago jury decided Tuesday that a former handyman will spend the rest of his life in prison, rather than be sent to death row, for the 1993 slayings of seven people at a suburban restaurant.

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Pat Quinn’s office warned Wednesday that state government now faces an additional $900 million budget deficit, largely because rising unemployment has eaten away at income tax revenues.

LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) — With a second man now facing murder charges, the Logan County sheriff said Friday he believes they've caught everyone responsible for killing a family of five in the little town of Beason.