Updated: 3:01 PM President Bush plans a fund-raising trip to Illinois Thursday as the state's GOP flounders in its fourth week without a U.S. Senate candidate.

Updated: 11:42 AM State Senator Kirk Dillard says he still hasn't decided whether he wants to enter the race for the U.S. Senate.

Updated: 11:10 AM Rockford firefighters battle a suspicious early morning blaze at an abandoned house.

Updated: 11:08 AM Just a week after nine-year-old Jacquez Brown drowned in the Rock River a second person falls into the river and died.

Posted: 11:07 AM He's only been on the job for a couple months, but already, Dr. Dennis Thompson has given new life to a school district in the midst of some very difficult times.

Updated: 4:08 PM District 205 looks at contracting out jobs.

Updated: 1:16 PM Illinois Senate Republicans cut a cake and unveiled a tongue-in-cheek plaque Tuesday commemorating the latest a spring legislative session has ever gone.

Updated: 1:19 PM Rockford's largest employer says it has won another multi-million dollar contract to supply a part for Boeing's 7E7 Dreamliner.

Updated: 1:20 PM President Bush's trip to the Midwest this week will include a stop in Illinois.

Updated: 7:08 PM A fire bomb for the eighth time this year.

Updated: 7:11 PM Dogs in two separate incidents attack two children.

Updated: 12:40 PM A sweeping new plan to protect the Great Lakes would make it nearly impossible to divert large amounts of water from the lakes to other areas of the country.

Updated: 12:45 PM A new District 205 budget is set to be revealed Tuesday night.

Updated: 12:46 PM A new name is being thrown around in the Illinois Senate race.

Updated: 12:46 PM Wal-Mart looks to build in Janesville.

Updated: 7:58 PM A DeKalb woman is dead after hitting a utility pole.

Updated: 7:56 PM A small step to reach out to local youth

Updated: 9:12 PM The winter road conditions could be hazardous to some Ford cars.

Updated: 7:48 PM Over the past decade, family medicine has seen a sharp decline in the number of new physicians nationwide.

Updated: 7:44 PM Members of the 333rd return home.

Updated: 12:54 PM The northern Illinois community of Freeport Friday will welcome home 180 members of an Illinois National Guard unit who spent more than year in Iraq.

Updated: 12:52 PM The Federal Aviation Administration says O'Hare International Airport handled more flights in the first half of the year than any other U.S. airport.

Updated: 12:54 PM The city makes changes to the boil order.

Updated: 12:52 PM U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald says he's disappointed but not surprised that former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka isn't running for Senate.

Updated: 12:53 PM Hundreds of workers at Maytag Corporation's Galesburg plant have officially received notice that their jobs will soon be eliminated.