Updated: 12:48 PM A study says Chicago officials have "seriously exaggerated" the economic benefits of the O'Hare International Airport expansion project.

Updated: 11:28 PM Rockford alderman sign-off to support a possible casino.

Updated: 11:17 PM Equality in schools changed 50 years ago.

Updated: 10:44 PM The body of a young woman was pulled from the Rock River.

Updated: 1:22 PM Illinois Senate Democrats compromise with Gov. Rod Blagojevich over how to run public schools gives them the constitutional authority to advise and consent on the governor's appointments.

Updated: 12:40 PM An antique chandelier and eight plaster capitals have been pilfered from the historic Elks Club building in Rockford.

Updated: 12:38 PM It's been 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools are unconstitutional.

Updated: 12:36 PM Illinois Revenue Department says a record 200,000 Illinoisans filed their tax returns online through the state's I-File system this year.

Updated: 12:34 PM A 20-year-old man is stabbed to death in Rockford's first murder of the year.

Updated: 10:44 PM Gathering support for our troops overseas.

Updated: 9:47 PM African snails hit the stateline.

Updated: 11:07 PM Friends and family remember a local soldier.

Updated: 9:54 PM There's a spin-off on American Idol and these contestants are trying to be the "Divine" Idol.

Updated: 12:47 PM A new study says Wisconsin residents pay more for electricity than people in seven other Midwestern states.

Updated: 12:48 PM The Federal Aviation Administration says flights are up 10 percent this year at O'Hare International Airport.

Updated: 12:49 PM The physical fitness of our students is a statewide concern.

Updated: 8:12 PM A Rockford man convicted of killing his six children as they slept won't be getting out on parole.

Updated: 1:19 PM Last month, members of the 333rd Military Police Unit based in Freeport were preparing to come home.

Updated: 1:20 PM Wisconsin will increase testing for Mad Cow disease.

Updated: 1:21 PM City council members in the north-central Illinois town of Utica have delayed a vote on a proposal to change the path of Illinois Route 178.

Updated: 1:22 PM A 21-year-old Rockford woman is dead and a man is fighting for his life after a Wednesday early morning car crash in Boone County.

Updated: 1:23 PM Rockford Police are looking for an armed man who broke into a home and stabbed a resident.

Updated: 5:20 PM Rising cost of cheese is cutting into pizza profits.

Updated: 3:36 PM Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich thinks large corporations should publicize what they pay in state taxes and the loopholes they use to avoid them.

Updated: 12:44 PM A National Guardsman who says he was fired from his job as a Rockton police officer after he was called up for active duty plans to sue the northern Illinois village.