Updated: 11:10 PM Skyrocketing costs haven't stopped interest in Illinois' public universities.

Updated: 11:08 PM Stepping up security on the 4th.

Updated: 11:06 PM Fireworks, festivities and remembering America's independence…

Updated: 12:33 PM What goes into making this 4th of July a sight like no other?

Updated: 12:28 PM A loosing candidate may be the leading candidate.

Updated: 12:29 PM A Rockford woman died after fighting for her life for the past two weeks.

Updated: 7:35 PM Smoke bombs, sparklers and morning glories may be legal but they're still dangerous.

Updated: 5:32 PM The Illinois Senate Thursday voted to roll back fees on interstate truckers and make the owners of big SUVs pay more instead.

Updated: 5:30 PM Supporters of the interim budget passed by the Legislature Thursday say they would rather have a permanent budget.

Updated: 5:29 PM An attorney for a Cook County commission investigating the fire at a downtown Chicago high-rise says it's unfortunate that portion of the commission's report was released.

Updated: 5:28 PM Employees at SBC Communications Incorporated represented by the Communications Workers of America have overwhelming approved a five-year contract reached in late May following a brief walkout in 13 states.

Updated: 12:45 PM A Madison college student who faked her abduction is sentenced to three years probation.

Updated: 7:08 PM U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald accused Judy Baar Topinka, the head of the Illinois Republican Party, Wednesday of not supporting former candidate Jack Ryan because of her own political ambitions.

Updated: 5:04 PM Four men have claimed to have been sexually abused by a former priest in the Rockford Catholic Diocese.

Updated: 4:17 PM Plans to expand a downtown Rockford bridge could lead to the demolition of an entire public housing development.

Updated: 4:05 PM The Illinois Senate Wednesday rejected changes Governor Rod Blagojevich wanted to make to the popular school construction program.

Updated: 4:06 PM A judge has thrown out parts of Wisconsin's No Call List, cutting the maximum fine against telemarketing violators from $10,000 to $100.

Updated: 7:36 PM It was 56 years ago Tuesday the body of Mary Jane Reed was found in Ogle County.

Updated: 4:17 PM Rockford woman believes she's the victim of an ATM scam.

Updated: 1:21 PM New census data released Tuesday shows more black Wisconsinites have high school and college degrees.

Updated: 11:31 PM Rockford residents experience their own taste of free speech.

Updated: 8:20 PM The Defense Department says Utt died Sunday when rockets were fired into his operating base in Baghdad.

Updated: 11:30 PM Illinois faces shortage of brain surgeons.

Updated: 3:38 PM Two former prosecutors will check the backgrounds of possible replacements for former Republican Senate candidate Jack Ryan.

Updated: 12:42 PM Some mayors south of Chicago want to withdraw from Cook County and create a new county.