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July 30, 2020 10:01 pm Associated Press, Howard Packowitz, Mike Miletich

SPRINGFIELD (WEEK) – House Speaker Michael Madigan is unwilling to relinquish his decades-long dominance of Illinois politics. “I have no plans to…

July 30, 2020 12:00 am Associated Press, Howard Packowitz

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Wednesday that the viral epidemic is endangering the modest economic recovery that…

July 21, 2020 9:50 pm Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Fourteen people have been injured in connection with a shooting on Chicago’s South Side. First Deputy Eric Carter says the…

July 21, 2020 1:05 am Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler knelt during the national anthem along with several of his players before first…

July 17, 2020 11:22 pm Associated Press

ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of…

July 17, 2020 10:40 am Associated Press

Goodrich Quality Theaters, who owned the theater and numerous others throughout the Midwest, announced Thursday it was acquired by Mason Asset…

July 16, 2020 11:41 pm Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD (AP) — The Illinois governor took the unusual step Thursday of preemptively filing a lawsuit to ensure school children wear face…

July 16, 2020 12:22 am Associated Press

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Organizers say they have canceled the 2021 Rose Parade because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on planning for…

July 14, 2020 11:22 pm Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been admitted to a hospital for treatment of a possible infection and will…

July 14, 2020 10:34 pm Associated Press, Howard Packowitz

BOSTON (AP) — The Trump administration has rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer schools or leave the…