Alex Wallau, a key lieutenant over the year to Disney CEO Robert A. Iger and who advised people both working off camera and ...

A bipartisan audience of more than 300 gathered in Springfield to remember former Gov. Jim Edgar, who died Sept. 14. He was praised for good governance and as a model for non-divisive leadership.

CHICAGO — Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican credited with guiding the state into a period of greater financial stability in the 1990s, died Sunday, according to his family.

In the 1990s, he compromised with Democrats, backed abortion rights, increased spending for schools and used an income-tax hike to help tame a huge budget deficit. By Adam Nossiter Jim Edgar, a ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement was active in Chicago’s suburbs and the city, and federal agents pepper sprayed protesters Friday morning outside the detention facility in suburban Broadview. The ...

Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican credited with steering the state toward financial stability in the 1990s, died Sunday at the age of 79. Edgar died from complications ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill (CNI) - Jim Edgar, Illinois’ 38th governor who served from 1991 to 1999, died Sunday after disclosing an aggressive cancer diagnosis earlier this year. He was 79. Though he’d been out ...

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