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Stock futures on friday were coming off a record close for the s p 500 yesterday. The dow closing in. Another number 600, netflix crude oil a little change. Think Lower Oil Prices are good for the economy, think again. This morning, job cuts jumped 68 in april to 61,000 job cuts. Oil firms a huge part of that. Tenyear bond note, costing investors about 500 billion in the past month. Its probably low, i think you think thats low . I think thats low, i think the damage of this german remember, tha...

Reduced funding from UIS, federal grant, impacts annual budget

James Peyton Philip was a symbol of Chicago suburban political growth in the post-World War II era of white flight from the city, a hulking, cigar chomping retired Marine who helped build a Republican firewall against Chicago’s Democratic domination as Illinois Senate president for a decade. Philip, 93, known most commonly in Illinois statehouse politics by the nickname “Pate,” died Tuesday ...

James Peyton Philip was a symbol of Chicago suburban political growth in the post-World War II era of white flight from the city, a hulking, cigar chomping retired Marine who

Msall, 61, died following complications from surgery.

The unseating of judges DeLaurenti and Mosele almost 25 years ago was known then and now as "the Vendetta."

Gary LaPaille, who served as chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party from 1990 to 1998, died Thursday at 68 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.

Passage of Amendment 1, on the November ballot, would put Illinoisans’ pocketbooks at risk of another hit during a time when it is already difficult to make ends meet.

Former Illinois Congressman John Porter, a moderate North Shore Republican, dies at 87