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Just over a week to go before Illinois' primary election day. Candidates for all sorts of offices are knuckling down and knocking on doors.That includes the multitudes running for the 177 seats that're up in the Illinois House and Senate.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn will deliver his budget address this week to the state legislature, his fourth since taking office. The governor is expected to pontificate on Medicaid spending, taxes and public pensions.Four decades ago, Quinn preached about basketball, hair styles and the Vietnam War.

There is still no decision from Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on whether he'll allow cameras in Chicago to catch speeders.

Sears Holdings Corp. and Chicago’s financial exchanges have quit threatening to pull up stakes now that Illinois has enacted tax breaks for them. But it remains unclear whether state incentives to big companies are wise uses of economic-development resources.

A new government agency could boost the number of charter schools in Illinois.

Chicagoans are remembering their longtime first lady, Maggie Daley. A spokeswoman for the Daley family said Mrs. Daley died on Thursday evening.

A project aimed with halting one of the region’s worst rail logjams broke ground Monday on Chicago’s South Side.The so-called Englewood Flyover will cost $133 million.