State News

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn warned Wednesday that the state's Medicaid system is near collapse and government retirement funds are broken, but he offered no plan for fixing the problems.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man has been arrested after police investigating a report of a camera in a Champaign coffee shop's restroom found pictures of girls and women taken in bathrooms over a number of years.

SPRINGFIELD – An Illinois House committee has approved tougher regulations for centers that perform abortions and a requirement that women view an ultrasound or refuse in writing before getting an abortion.

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Pat Quinn prepared Tuesday to deliver an Illinois budget proposal stuffed with grim news including closing two prisons and 12 other state facilities, slashing Medicaid by $2.7 billion and cutting spending at most state agencies.

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Department of Human Services officials approved $1.7 million in payments to a transportation business despite the company’s conviction for fraudulently billing the state’s Medicaid program for $400,000, an investigation released Tuesday found.

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Pat Quinn plans to call for closing 14 state facilities, including eight run by the Corrections Department, when he presents his proposal for a new Illinois budget that would slash spending throughout state government, a person familiar with the plan told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

CHICAGO – Members of Illinois' congressional delegation are promoting changes to a U.S. House transportation bill they say would deprive the state of millions in highway funds and jeopardize Chicago's transit system.

CHICAGO – Pat Quinn deserves a passing C or C+ grade on job-creation policies as governor, but his administration must do more to improve the business climate and burnish the state’s image to woo would-be investors away from other states, a key business leader said Monday.

Dane County authorities investigating an apparent drunken driving crash that killed four people say two victims were from Wisconsin and the other two were from Illinois.

CHICAGO – A sense of order and decorum prevails at Noble Street College Prep as students move quickly through a hallway adorned with banners from dozens of colleges. Everyone wears a school polo shirt neatly tucked into khaki trousers. There’s plenty of chatter but no jostling, no cellphones and no dawdling.

EARLVILLE – Authorities have identified the man killed during a home invasion early Sunday in rural LaSalle County.

SPRINGFIELD – Federal authorities are investigating another Illinois state grant initiative, this one a job-training program run by an administrator who was fired for mismanagement but has returned to work with back pay and a raise, The Associated Press has learned.

JOHNSBURG – With unseasonably warm weather on Sunday, Patrick “Rocky” Rorig told his 14-year-old son that it was probably the last time they would be able to hit the ice on the pond behind their Johnsburg home.

MARKHAM – Gov. Pat Quinn said Monday he is prepared to slash parts of the state budget back to levels Illinois hasn’t seen in more than four years.

EARLVILLE – Authorities in said one person was fatally shot in what appears to be a home invasion in rural LaSalle County.