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Illinois senior Angela Bizzarri was announced Wednesday as winner of this year's Honda Award for cross country. The award, determined by voting among 1,000 NCAA-member schools, honors the top female collegie athlete in her sport. Bizzarri won the NCAA Division I meet last month in Terre Haute, Ind., covering the 6-kilometer course in 19 minutes, 46.8 seconds.
Coles County Farm Bureau will have three voting delegates at the Illinois Farm Bureau annual meeting this year in Chicago. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Saturday through Tuesday.
Students had the opportunity to meet and converse with local politicians at an annual ice cream social hosted by the Illinois Student Senate (ISS) on Tuesday afternoon in the South Lounge of the Illini Union.
Republican candidate for Illinois governor Andy McKenna says he has a plan to rescue the state's finances without an income tax increase.
Audio Available Governor Pat Quinn will sign a bill Wednesday to cap some political donations for the first time in Illinois.
After eight years of waiting, there is finally some action to open the State of Illinois’ Thomson Correctional Center. It is action that is coming from a surprising source, but action nonetheless. Is any action better than the 8 years of nothing?
Northfield Township High School District 225's Board of Education discussed Monday what comes next after Illinois Supreme Court refused to rehear an appellate court decision determining the district's 2006 newsletters were subject to state election laws.
Another candidate has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination for Congress in Illinois' 14th Congressional District.
The Belleville City Council on Monday approved the next step in a planned 144-unit apartment complex near Southwestern Illinois College.
The Democratic primary for Illinois governor is taking some new twists and turns. Political editor Jack Conaty tells us two key voting blocks within the party are choosing different sides in this race.
Editor’s note: A weekly look at the wild and often wacky world of Illinois politics. Hynes and Quinn clash — again. Reformers want a fairer way of setting political boundaries. A candidate gets help, maybe, from Michael Jackson’s father and a Rolls-Royce.
