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SPRINGFIELD — The late former Gov. Jim Edgar was memorialized Saturday as a man whose compassion, integrity, and honesty showed he put people above politics and led Illinois as a model of what ...

Jim Edgar set his cap for a career in state government, to him a high calling, in the 1960s when he was student body president at Eastern Illinois University in his hometown of Charleston. His ...

They’re telling Jim Irsay stories at his funeral Monday, and you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. So at St. Luke’s United Methodist, they do both. The Colts owner, who died May 21 at age 65, was ...

He brought order and profits to Marvel in the 1980s and helped establish the genre as a popular-culture tent pole for decades to come. By Clay Risen Jim Shooter, a hard-driving giant of a comic-book ...

A Cincinnati Bearcats legend is gone. If you've listened to a University of Cincinnati Bearcats football game anytime since 1988, you've likely heard Jim Kelly Jr. (or just Jim Kelly, as he preferred) ...