Updated: 3:43 PM Police are searching for the gunman in a shooting that happened Thursday night.

Updated: 3:40 PM Police make an arrest in the abduction and assault of a seven-year-old Rockford girl.

Updated: 2:55 PM According to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget, Chicago isn't merely Chicago anymore.

Updated: 2:47 PM Residents in two central Illinois counties have been added to the growing list of those who can receive government aid in cleaning up after powerful storms.

Updated: 6:24 PM Gov. Rod Blagojevich is drawing criticism over his use of state prison employees to videotape and monitor television newscasts.

Updated: 6:17 PM The Illinois Supreme Court Thursday ordered the state's comptroller to pay salary increases for Illinois judges that were vetoed by the governor in a deficit-reduction move.

Updated: 5:14 PM ID card gives Mexican immigrants new lease on life.

Updated: 3:44 PM Roofers, landscapers and utility crews aren't the only ones working overtime after the storms that hit Illinois this summer.

Updated: 3:41 PM The former public works superintendent in the Chicago suburb of Oak Forest is charged with pocketing $375,000 in bribes.

Updated: 7:00 PM Green Bay Bishop Robert Banks says he regrets his actions while he was an official in the Boston archdiocese.

Updated: 6:57 PM The FBI says the car bomb that exploded in Clark County appears to be an isolated incident.

Updated: 3:47 PM Illinois has three new laws meant to protect the elderly from abuse.

Updated: 3:42 PM More than 600 Illinois schools have failed to meet state standards and must give children the option of going to other schools this fall.

Updated: 8:33 PM More government employees are being laid off as the state of Illinois grapples with a budget crisis.

Updated: 8:14 PM Families with several people afflicted with Alzheimer's disease are being recruited for a new gene bank.

Updated: 8:13 PM A Chicago couple has sued Mayor Richard Daley, the city and its park district over a ban on a brick with a religious message.

Updated: 2:32 PM Station now able to transmit over the air.

Updated: 2:34 PM The Rockford School Board brings back postions and programs.

Updated: 4:31 PM There are 16 murals gracing some of the walls of businesses and buildings throughout downtown Belvidere.

Updated: 3:40 PM Surgeon general Richard Carmona and soccer star Mia Hamm have a message for America's kids: get off the couch.

Updated: 3:34 PM For some of us, it will soon feel like Christmas in July. This week the government will begin mailing checks to families with children.

Updated: 3:18 PM Volunteers try to help family save home.

Updated: 2:16 PM A community newspaper publisher accused of spying for Saddam Hussein has been taken to a hospital with chest pains.

Updated: 2:14 PM Uncertainty over the state budget has led many school districts to cancel summer reading programs.

Updated: 10:22 AM A chance to re-visit some cuts in the Rockford School District.