SIU Board of Trustees approves new budget

  CARBONDALE, Ill. (WJPF) — The SIU Board of Trustees has approved a new $353 million budget for the Carbondale campus. It’s part of a $930 million overall budget for the entire SIU system. The money includes

Boeing to build Navy aircraft at MidAmerica, invest $200M

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Chicago-based aerospace giant Boeing Co. will invest $200 million to begin manufacturing the U.S. Navy’s latest unmanned aircraft at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in a project that could add more than 150 jobs

Illinois hopes ‘better angels’ prevail in Lincoln desk rehab

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The storage-room merchants’ desk where President-elect Abraham Lincoln penned his first inaugural address, beseeching southern states to recall the “mystic chords of memory” and invoke “the better angels of our nature” to circumvent

EPA strikes deal for cleanup of battery site that burned

CHICAGO (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with a northern Illinois battery company to clean up a warehouse where a June fire led to the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents, the agency said Thursday.