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Aon Centerand blight, for example. That’s why Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, didn’t bite on a proposal to create a tax increment financing district in the East Loop. Owners of the Aon and four other downtown stalwarts — One and Two Illinois Center ...

"Have a safe flight." How often will travelers hear those words uttered by friends and family members before departing from Chicago airports this week? With the busiest travel season of the year here, travelers can expect to maneuver through long ...

Becoming law in July 2009, the Illinois Video Gambling Act (HB 255 & HB 2424) allowed Illinois more gambling and more video gambling/slot machines (VGMs) than Nevada. This legislation permitted any licensed establishments pouring alcohol to have ...

Since Ultimate Fighting Championship’s inception almost two decades ago, professional mixed martial arts has grown into a nationwide phenomenon. At the amateur level, it has been a sport in flux, especially in Illinois this year. Extreme Challenge ...

Start to back away from the table now that Ohio has upped the ante? Or bet even more of the state's future on additional casinos, flashier gambling halls and hefty tax breaks for the national corporations that lure gullible Hoosiers to their slot ...

half -- $7,807,492 -- going to school districts, mostly in the form of their final state aid payments of the 2008-09 school year. Few, if any, school districts documented the money as retaining or creating jobs. The non-school grants to Henry County ...

And back in February, White House Social Secretary Desirée Rogers, who once ran the Illinois Lottery ... alert on some secret lotto? The president and first lady will host their first state dinner for the prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh.

Starting in Yorktown, Virginia and after 348 miles across the plantations and civil war battlegrounds, we come to Monticello and the former home of Thomas Jefferson who wrote the American Declaration of Independence in 1776. This has influenced ...

“Outraged” by the recent release of dozens of felons due to a shortage of space, Gov. Chris Gregoire took the rare public step this afternoon of publicly blasting her own corrections secretary, Harold Clarke. The prisoners who were let out of ...

A) A Seattle man tried to channel his "ninja" powers in order to leap a five-foot fence. Well his plan didn't work, and he ended up stuck in the fence. Police say alcohol may have played a role. B) This California interior designer's false disability ...