Some 13,647 Illinois homes received a foreclosure filing in April, a drop of more than 11 percent since March, but filings still were 54 percent higher than they were a year ago, according to data rel

The Sun-Times has learned that 2 members of Chicago's Indian community sent word to Blagojevich's camp that Jesse Jackson Jr. would raise $5 million in exchange for Obama's Senate seat.

The state's cigarette tax would leap by $1 over two years under a proposal a Senate committee approved today while hoping to come up with more money to pay down the state's big backlog of Medicaid bil

Which politician should be top Santa's naughty list this year?

IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich wants taxpayers to pay for the high-profile defense lawyer he hired to represent him in state lawmakers impeachment proceedings.