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FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday Nov. 3, 2010, in Wheeling, Ill., Illinois Sen.-elect Mark Kirk, R-Ill., speaks to media as he celebrates his election win. Nearly a year after a stroke left him barely able to move the left side of his body, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is expected to climb the 45 steps to the Senateâs front door this week _ a walk thatâs significant not just for Illinoisâ junior senator, but also for medical researchers and hundreds of thousands of stroke patients. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Illinois Sen. Kirk to return a year after stroke

Sara Burnett · December 31, 2012 9:36 pm

FOR USE MONDAY DEC. 31, 2012 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2012 file photo taken in Springfield, Ill., Illinois Rep. Daniel Biss, D-Skokie, left, looks on as Illinois Rep. Elaine Nekritz, D-Des Plaines, speaks with reporters at the Illinois State Capitol. Lawmakers will convene again the first week in January in hopes of fixing the nation's worst case of underfunding state employees' pensions, a problem approaching $100 billion and mounting by $17 million per day. On the table are solutions that other states adopted as long as five years ago. "Nothing has changed in 40 years," said Nekritz, a Chicago Democrat and chairman of the House Pensions Committee, who called for an end to "excuses" when rolling out another proposal to solve the problem this month. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Illinois dragging its feet on huge pension problem

Sara Burnett · December 30, 2012 3:19 pm

Ill. lawmaker: Pension plan would save $2 billion

Sara Burnett · December 21, 2012 10:59 pm

In this Nov. 2, 2012 photo, DeKalb police Sgt. Jason Leverton speaks with an Northern Illinois University police officer in the doorway of the Pi Kappa Alpha house in DeKalb, Ill. where police were investigating the death of NIU freshman David Bogenberger. Nearly two dozen Pi Kappa Alpha members at Northern Illinois University have been charged with hazing-related counts after Bogenberger was found dead at their fraternity house following a night of drinking. (AP Photo/Daily Chronicle, Kyle Bursaw) CHICAGO LOCALS OUT; ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

13 surrender in Illinois fraternity drinking death

Sara Burnett · December 19, 2012 3:15 am

Ill. officials push for illegal immigrant licenses

Sara Burnett · November 20, 2012 11:27 pm

Ryan: Obama trying to ‘muddle and confuse’ voters

Sara Burnett · October 7, 2012 10:06 pm

FILE - A May 16, 2011 file photo shows U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. in Chicago. Jackson's wife said Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, her husband is seeing his doctor two to three times a week and his physician will decide when the congressman returns to work. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Wife unsure when US Rep. Jackson Jr. will return

Sara Burnett · October 3, 2012 4:00 am