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Bruce Baag
Local
2 days ago
Bruce Bagg, former WTAX morning host and news reporter, dies at 88

Bruce Bagg spent at least 15 years with WTAX before taking the helm at the Illinois Information Service.

A Chicago Transit Authority bus leaves a stop on the city’s North Side. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Local
2 days ago
Transportation overhaul taking shape with toll increase, new board appointees

Toll hike part of deal with labor leaders to boost public transportation funding in Chicago.
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WNBA
Sports
2 days ago
Sex toys tossed on court interrupt WNBA games in Chicago and LA in replay of 2025 incidents

There were similar incidents last season in Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles. Some of the incidents resulted in arrests.

UIS
Local
2 days ago
Parkland College partners with UIS on new transfer program

“It’s for students who are interested in transferring after attending Parkland,” said Parkland’s Dean of Enrollment, Kristin Smigielski.

Sports
3 days ago
Best Chicago Bears fantasy performances last season

Stacker compiled a list of the best Chicago Bears fantasy performances in 2025

Longtime Springfield lobbyist Mike McClain and former Commonwealth Edison CEO Anne Pramaggiore leave Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on their separate sentencing dates in July after both were sentenced to two years in prison in connection to a bribery scheme centered on former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. (Capitol News Illinois photos by Andrew Adams)
IL State News
3 days ago
Possible ComEd 4 retrial up in the air months after 7th Circuit ordered prison release for 2

Judge proposes February 2027 trial date for defendants McClain, Pramaggiore.

The former PNC Bank Building on Old State Capitol Plaza in Springfield.
Local
3 days ago
Former downtown Springfield bank building sold

Chris Stone already has the building mostly full.

Ambulance
Local
4 days ago
Route 10 fatal crash in Clinton leaves 1 dead, 2 hospitalized

Illinois State Police and sheriff’s deputies report that an eastbound vehicle and a westbound vehicle collided on Route 10.

"Cookes and Cream" is one of the cows you can milk at the Illinois State Fair.
Local
4 days ago
You can milk a cow at the Illinois State Fair

It’s not hard, but milking by hand can take a while under normal circumstances.

Local
4 days ago
Illinois GOP chief on 2026 election: ‘It’s common sense versus communism’

Republicans hold no statewide offices and are in the superminority in both the IL House and IL Senate.