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Illinois drivers soon could roll along rural interstates at 70 mph after House lawmakers Wednesday approved a higher speed limit on nonurban highways despite safety concerns and a possible veto showdown with the governor. Supporters said the higher...

The Illinois Republican Party should appoint as its next party chair someone who supports legalization of same-sex marriage. Why? First, because it would mess with our minds. Outgoing party chair Pat Brady, who resigned Tuesday in a letter to the...

Postpone school closures The proposal to close 54 Chicago Public Schools is dangerous and ill-conceived. It will damage the schools it closes and the schools that receive students from the closed schools. In defending the closings, CPS made many...

Illinois has its posted highway speed limit and its populist highway speed limit — a fluid relationship based mostly on driver whim and the presence of the gentlemen and ladies in state police squad cars. State Sen. Jim Oberweis, R-Sugar Grove,...

Illinois motorists would be able to legally drive 70 mph on interstate highways and tollways under legislation the Senate passed Tuesday. The measure would allow Cook County, the suburban collar counties and two counties near St. Louis to opt out in...

News briefs from St. Charles, Batavia, Geneva and Sugar Grove. St. Charles Outgoing St. Charles Mayor Don DeWitte and Kevin O'Donnell with O'Donnell Commercial Real Estate will be guest bartenders at McNally's Irish Pub, 109 W. Main St., from 6 to 9...

Illinois Republican Party leaders are scheduled to gather behind closed doors Saturday to discuss the fate of state GOP Chairman Pat Brady following his endorsement of same-sex marriage. But it’s unclear whether the Republican State Central...

A former West Chicago resident who has racked up 11 drunken-driving convictions was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for a 2012 DUI near Sugar Grove, authorities said. Michael J. Picon, 42, of Silvis, Ill., had pleaded guilty in January to one...

Jan Ziegler can spot the veterans by their measuring tapes. "The first year, people pick a tree that's too tall," said Ziegler, who owns Ziegler Christmas Tree Farm in Elgin. "They look smaller in the field. So the next year, they measure." In addition...

A 20-year-old woman supposedly headed to Illinois State University from her Kane County home was last seen at Millennium Park in Chicago but now is reported missing. Tanner Conroyd left her house on Route 31 in unincorporated Kane County near St. Charles...

The 20-year-old St. Charles-area woman reported missing Sunday was found safe late this morning at a Chicago-area hospital, according to Kane County Sheriff’s police. Tanner Conroyd left around noon Sunday from her father’s home on Route 31...

An Aurora woman was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for causing a head-on collision that killed a Marengo man in 2009. Linda L. Knotts, 48, pleaded guilty in Kane County court to one count of aggravated DUI for the March 20, 2009 crash...