Illinois Events

The death toll in the St. Anthony's hospital fire, which investigators believed may have been fed by fresh paint and varnish, was set at 66 today by the Catholic Chancery office. The k...

The Farnsworth House, was designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51. It is a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting, located 55 miles (89 km) southwes...

At 2:04 a.m., four minutes out of Chicago's Midway Airport, something—Civil Aeronautics Board investigators are trying to discover what it was—went seriously wrong. Pilot James Sanders, 4...

Thirty-nine people were killed and more than 200 injured Monday when an electric commuter train that was trying to back up after apparently overshooting a station was rammed from behind b...

AT LEAST 12 persons were killed and more than 180 injured Friday as four cars of a Chicago Transit Authority train toppled frown elevated tracks in the Loop and plunged to the street duri...

At just after 3 p.m. on May 25, 1979, an American Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff killing all 271 on board and two on the ground. The left engine fell off Flight 191 on take...

The Chicago Tylenol murders occurred when seven people died after taking pain-relief capsules that had been poisoned. The Tylenol poisonings, code-named TYMURS by the FBI, took place in t...

It started with an offhand remark made by Bob Dylan during his performance at Live Aid, the massive fundraising concert held at Wembley Stadium, London, and JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, in ...

The heat wave in July 1995 in Chicago was one of the worst weather-related disasters in Illinois history with approximately 525 deaths over a 5-day period. As noted by Changnon et al. (19...

In a letter of "qualified admonition" to Burris, the panel said it found he had provided "incorrect, inconsistent, misleading or incomplete information" about his appointment. "While t...

Doctors in Illinois can now offer swine flu shots to Illinoisans without high-risk conditions, with state health officials' blessing. The Illinois public health department's restrictio...

Obama ordered the shutdown of the detention center as one of his first acts after taking office in January. But actually closing it has proven a cumbersome matter, largely because of t...

Although no final decision has been made because of family considerations, ABC News has learned that White House officials are preparing for Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to announce on Fri...

Illinois State Police are investigating the death of Springfield Mayor Timothy Davlin, whose body was found in his home Tuesday after he failed to show up for a court hearing in a probat...

It might be called the low-budget sequel. In opening statements for Rod Blagojevich’s retrial on Monday, the defense dropped the showmanship, and the prosecution significantly slimmed ...

Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel (Chicago’s new mayor) created a sort of media frenzy when they appeared at the Dirksen federal co...

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich testified in his retrial on federal corruption charges Thursday, saying he had waited two and a half years for the opportunity. “I used to be your governor ...

For decades, William Cellini was feared and respected at the highest reaches of state government — advising governors, screening state Cabinet officials, controlling federal appointments ...