Situation: After considering thousands of bills, the Illinois legislature paused its brief, frenetic spring session, putting ...

Jim Edgar can rightfully claim, as he did Wednesday in a preamble to his statement of retirement, that he will leave Illinois on a much sounder footing than when he took office in 1990.

A room on the first floor of the Illinois State Library will now be named after former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias officially dedicated the Jim Edgar ...

Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar announced in a statement Monday that he is battling pancreatic cancer. In the statement, Edgar, 78, said the cancer has spread as he and his wife are "facing a new, ...

Jim Edgar hopes to beat pancreatic cancer: ‘But to be very truthful, if it ended tomorrow, I've had a great life’ The former Illinois governor has been undergoing chemotherapy after a ...

With five contenders in the Illinois GOP governor primary, former Gov. Jim Edgar said the Republicans need at the top of their ticket a “nominee who is not going to scare part of the state” in ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --The devastating flooding in Texas caused by Hurricane Harvey brought back memories for former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, who led the state through the Great Flood of 1993 along the ...

Former Gov. Jim Edgar said his brother, who died on Sunday at age 68, enjoyed visiting family and friends as well as seeing Coles County’s fall foliage.

Former Gov. Jim Edgar says the political landscape leading up to the June 28 Illinois primary and November election has been upended with POLITICO’s report of a draft Supreme Court opinion that ...

Former Gov. Jim Edgar publicly endorsed Bruce Rauner for governor in 2014 and traveled the state to help Rauner win. But less than six months after Rauner was inaugurated, Edgar began to criticize ...

Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar announced in a statement Monday that he is battling pancreatic cancer. In the statement, Edgar ...