Topic: Illinois

Report: Owners of Chicago Cubs want state help in effort to renovate Wrigley FieldThe owners of the Chicago Cubs want the help of the state of Illinois in their plans to renovate Wrigley Field.The Chicago Tribune is reporting the Ricketts family, which ...

Franciscan Priest, Father Louis Hennipin declared Illinois to be the most beautiful land he had ever seen. They attacked, and residents of the little village who weren't slain, were backed up onto the bluff where the fort had been, and remained there ...

Illinois is a great place to visit whether you are going to Chicago or exploring the many other areas of interest. If you are visiting Chicago, then you have many great options for places to visit. Other areas of interest in Chicago ...

Illinois and Northwestern to meet in football at Wrigley FieldFootball is coming back to Wrigley Field.Northwestern and Illinois will play a Big Ten game at the storied baseball park on Nov. 20. The Chicago Cubs and Northwestern have scheduled a news conference ...

Do you find yourself wondering who else has been in your position? Who else has suffered through overwhelming amounts of debt and been left needing protection from foreclosure, a solution to credit card debt, and a hiding place from the repo man? ...

1Sixty-six New Year's revelers die and more than 200 are injured in a fire at a Bangkok nightclub.Longtime Rhode Island Sen. Claiborne Pell, creator of Pell Grants, dies at 90.Jan. reports jobless rate reached 8.1 percent in February, highest since 1983.March 9Obama ...

Ed BlakeSWANSEA, Ill. (AP) Ed Blake, an Illinoisan whose 15 seasons of professional baseball included time spent with the Cincinnati Reds and Kansas City Athletics, died Wednesday. He was 83.Blake died at Rosewood Care Center after a long illness, Belleville alderman Catherine ...

More Grounds for a Blagojevich Impeachment? I'm not a WTF kind of girl, but OMG, did you see the Illinois float that we entered in the Inaugural Parade? Illinois has one of its biggest moments imaginable on the world's stage and the ...

Talk to the modest traveler as to where in the United States they would most likely want to visit and you are likely to hear Orlando, New York, Las Vegas and San Francisco. Big cities with big attractions have always been the ...

Thursday's Sports TransactionsARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS_Named Roland Hemond special assistant to the president.CINCINNATI REDS_Placed SS Pedro Lopez on the 15-day DL. Activated INF Juan Castro from the 15-day DL.PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES_Promoted OF Greg Golson and LHP Josh Outman from Clearwater (FSL) to Reading (EL).WASHINGTON NATIONALS_Purchased ...