A miner can be a coal industry worker, but also a sports team mascot, an image emblazoned on the state flag or the name of a ...

The first post-war car to roll off the assembly line, a 1946 Ford Super Deluxe Tudor, was personally gifted ... and would keep it during his tenure as Governor of Arkansas. The car, the first ...

Former Illinois Governor George Ryan has died at the age of 91. He served prison time for federal corruption charges.

Former Republican Illinois Governor George Ryan has died at the age of 91. His most high-profile act as governor was to place ...

Gov. JB Pritzker is inviting more Canadians to vacation in Illinois. Pritzker said he can't blame anyone from Canada whose ...

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet ...

CHICAGO — Former Illinois Governor George Ryan, who served time in prison for corruption, has died at 91. Ryan, a Republican who served as the 39th governor of Illinois from 1999 to 2003 ...

Gov. Ryan purged Illinois' death row just three days before his term ended, though he never regretted the decision.