Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has commuted the sentence of a woman that experts believe was suffering from postpartum depression when she killed her two children more than two decades ago.

With one governor in prison and another under indictment, Illinois officials must choose between patching holes in current ethics laws or attempting a top-to-bottom overhaul that might hurt their own interests.

Two central Illinois volunteers have tied the knot in the place they first met: a homeless shelter.

Illinois has fired a transportation official who saw his salary nearly double in five years, including an 8 percent bump in the final days of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s administration.

Gov. Patt Quinn is asking lawmakers to significantly hike the state’s income tax as Illinois grapples with what he calls the “greatest crisis of modern times.”

A Massachusetts anesthesiologist has been accused of faking data for a dozen years in 21 published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers including Vioxx and Celebrex.

A sports consultant helping Tribune Co. with a potential Wrigley Field sale said in an e-mail to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s top aide that the results of the presidential election had put “the opportunities we discussed” in front of Blagojevich, The Ass

A move to end Roland Burris’ appointment as a U.S. senator and hold a special election has failed in the Illinois Legislature.

Roland Burris seems to have weathered the storm.

An Associated Press review of Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s travel records shows Quinn regularly paid his own expenses instead of charging taxpayers over his six years as lieutenant governor.