CHICAGO — There was a time when Tom Sadowski thought he'd stop working after turning 65 earlier this year. But he's put off retirement for at least five years — and now anticipates continuing to do some work afterward.

SPRINGFIELD — State officials say Illinois families receiving federal nutrition assistance will start seeing a monthly decrease in November.

INDIANAPOLIS — Relatives of 68 people who died in a 1994 commuter plane crash in northwestern Indiana are raising money to build a permanent memorial near the crash site they hope to dedicate on next year's 20th anniversary of the crash.

A Chicago alderman who predicted an ordinance allowing police officers to ticket people with small amounts of marijuana would bring in as much as $7 million a year wants to know why after 14 months the city has collected less than $70,000.

SPARKS, Nev. — A shooting at a middle school in northern Nevada has left two people dead and two boys in critical condition, rattling parents, teachers and students as they showed up for the start of the school week.

After a five-month, $425 million renovation, a busy stretch of a Chicago Transit Authority train line reopened Sunday.

Illinois lawmakers are considering a series of measures aimed at making the state's waterways safer, including a bill that would impose stiffer penalties on people caught operating a boat while intoxicated.

SPRINGFIELD — School administrators in Illinois are being warned to prepare for even less state funding for the next fiscal year.

Rossville is selling off about a dozen lots at $1 each, hoping to convince people to relocate to Vermillion County from the big city.

CHICAGO — Illinois Senate President John Cullerton says the state's pension crisis could be addressed in the fall legislative session even if a committee working on it remains split.

CHICAGO — Calling the proposed Illiana Expressway "a highway in nowhere land," the chairman of northeastern Illinois' official planning agency called for an end to Gov. Pat Quinn's push for the $1.3 billion tollway.

SPRINGFIELD — The State Board of Education is announcing a series of public hearings as it re-examines school funding in Illinois.

CHICAGO — Chicago gang members who have roared through intersections, driven on the wrong side of the road and even fired guns out of their car windows during funeral processions might have to walk to the next funeral, if proposed city ordinance is passed.

Exelon Generation says one of two reactors at the company's Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station is back at full power after a refueling outage.

An appeals court has ordered ComEd to refund almost $37 million to its northern Illinois customers following a six-year legal dispute.

JOLIET — A Will County judge is allowing a wrongful death case against former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson to go forward.

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