Updated: 12:45 PM "Unusually specific" intelligence has prompted a new terror alert from the government.

Updated: 12:43 PM Barack Obama takes his message on the road.

Updated: 8:56 PM Less air traffic at O'Hare.

Updated: 8:54 PM In the end, they just wanted to play football.

Updated: 12:44 PM Obama heads to the stateline on bus tour.

Updated: 6:39 PM The Harlem school district has 24 days to broker a deal.

Updated: 6:07 PM Cherryvale Mall will soon be home to a new department store. JcPenny’s plans to open their doors this week with a grand opening celebration on Wednesday.

Updated: 2:45 PM SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois lawmakers promised for months to do something to help lower doctors' high insurance costs.

Updated: 2:42 PM MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Target Corporation Friday announced that it's completed the sale of its Marshall Field's department stores to May Department Stores for $3.2 billion.

Updated: 2:40 PM NORTH LAKE, Ill. (AP) - The closure of a bakery in the Chicago suburb of North Lake will cost more than 300 people their jobs.

Updated: 2:37 PM SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Governor Rod Blagojevich Friday signed a state budget that closes a multibillion-dollar deficit and increases funding for education and health care.

Updated: 12:37 PM A 53-year-old Beloit woman is dead after an early morning house fire Friday.

Updated: 6:29 PM MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin ranks fifth in the nation in total tax burden.

Updated: 11:50 AM BELOIT, Wis. (AP) - When Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry visits Beloit next Tuesday, it will be a return trip for his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry.

Updated: 11:33 AM CHICAGO (AP) – U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald says the Daley administration and United Airlines have plotted to create record flight delays at O'Hare International Airport.

Updated: 10:32 AM CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Cubs president Andy McPhail says Wrigley Field is safe and sound.

Updated: 8:17 AM A longtime opponent of casinos speaks out why gambling on the Rock River would do more harm than good in the Rockford community.

Updated: 12:05 PM BOSTON (AP) - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he had to let lawmakers add pork-barrel spending to the state budget approved last week or hold up an otherwise good agreement.

Updated: 12:00 PM SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Republican Jack Ryan officially withdrew from the U.S. Senate race Thursday nearly five weeks after a sex club scandal forced him to abandon his candidacy.

Updated: 8:12 AM The first steps toward possible downsizing of the Winnebago County Board are taken at a Wednesday night meeting.

Updated: 6:20 PM The Illinois Appellate Court is set in the coming weeks to decide on granting Charter School.

Updated: 6:17 PM Twelve months ago, adult business owners in Rockford were faced with tougher restrictions: shorter hours and a cleaner look. The efforts by city leaders were meant to curb illegal activity around or perhaps in the shops. But have those regulations worked?

Updated: 1:46 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has called a meeting of all the domestic airlines that fly into O'HareInternational Airport to discuss flight delays.

Updated: 12:34 PM CHICAGO (Dow Jones/AP) - Chicago-based Exelon today reported a 40 percent increase in second-quarter profits.

Updated: 12:31 PM CHICAGO (AP) - Republican Jack Ryan is still officially running for US Senate, despite saying he would drop out of the race nearly five weeks ago.