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Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. said it will reassess its presence in Indiana following legislation signed into law last week.

Consumers in Illinois and other states are suing health insurance giant Centene, alleging the insurer defrauded them

The tight end was focused on having a strong year and then leaving for the NFL. He entered the transfer portal in January and committed to Michigan State later that month. “We’re asking him to do everything,” Michigan State tight ends coach Ted Gilmore said. The tight end said he has a “great personality” as a fun-loving person who likes to see everyone smile. “I know how to win in The Woodshed.”Related Michigan State football stories:Michigan football debuts at No.

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Freeland made its Junior Little League Central Regional debut Sunday, but it didn’t go quite as planned. Freeland dropped its opener Sunday, falling 5-3 to Illinois in the Junior Little League (13-14) Central Regional modified double-elimination tournament at Larkin Township Park in Midland. As a team, Freeland issued nine walks. By beating Freeland, Illinois advances to face the Michigan state champion from Birmingham at 1 p.m. Monday. “We just told the kids it’s business as usual.”MOREFreeland puts in extra work for Junior Little League Central Regional

Some familiar with Illinois law say public details of the Highland Park shooting case appear to suggest an intervention could have been considered and authorities should examine why it was not.

Illinois law prohibits people convicted of sex offenses involving minors from living within 500 feet of schools, playgrounds and day cares.

What economists think you should know about inflation, jobs and recessionary fears.

Last month, the bakery planned a drag brunch designed to be appropriate for children, but received vandalism, angry calls, insults and threats.

Scenic road trips just got supercharged as the Midwest works together to create an electric route along the Lake Michigan shoreline. The Lake Michigan EV Circuit Tour will be a network of electric vehicle chargers spanning over 1,100 miles of drivable shoreline around Lake Michigan. “The circuit will allow travelers to experience Lake Michigan and visit countless communities in and around the route. Electric vehicle sales now account for 5.6% of the overall market. More on MLive:$52B semiconductor package is a ‘big freakin’ deal for Michigan’Stellantis investing $83M in Michigan for hybrid electric vehicle engine productionTesla’s next competitor?

Employers were expected to have added a robust 258,000 jobs in July, but the pace of payroll creation is likely to slow in coming months.

A federal lawsuit challenges limits on campaign contributions in Illinois judicial race.

Illinois has joined with three other states to build a 1,100-mile EV charging circuit along Lake Michigan, creating an electrified scenic route with enough juice to get from Green Bay to Traverse City.

The United States saw its third 1-in-1,000-year rain in a week on Monday night and Tuesday morning, as southern Illinois was drenched by 8 to 12 inches of rain in 12 hours. An area just south of Newton, Ill., recorded 14 inches of rainfall in just 12 hours, according to the National Weather Service. Thunderstorms brought damaging winds and heavy rainfall through midafternoon on Tuesday.

The man is accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens more during a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.

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It won’t be just the actual temperature, but the hot temperature combined with high humidity. A cold front will be setting off severe thunderstorms across northern Lower Michigan Wednesday morning. Those storms are expected to hold off until late Wednesday afternoon and evening for southern Lower Michigan. The best way to see the surge of humidity is by looking at the dew point temperature forecast. The heat index is a temperature calculated by using actual temperature and relative humidity in a formula.

Hundreds more out-of-state patients are having abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics in Illinois and wait times to schedule the procedure in the southern part of the state have spiked during the first month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Caterpillar Inc. on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings of $1.67 billion.

Monkeypox cases in California, Illinois and New York make up nearly half of the nationwide total. The governors in those states have all declared a state of emergency to help address the outbreaks.

Illinois is a monkeypox "disaster area," Pritzker declared Monday. The declaration allows the state to better respond to the virus, he said.

Federal regulators have fined Family Dollar more than $1.2 million in penalties related to safety violations at two Ohio stores.

Ten Illinois insurance companies that sell plans on the exchange, at healthcare.gov, are proposing average rate increases of about 3% to nearly 16% for plans in 2023.

Lottery officials say a ticket bought in Illinois matches the winning numbers for the Mega Millions' $1.337 billion jackpot, which ranks among the largest ever.

LANSING, MI – The third largest lottery jackpot in U.S. History was won Friday night as one jackpot-winning ticket was sold in Illinois for the $1.28 billion Mega Millions drawing held on July 29. Detailed results for winning tickets sold in Michigan were also not available. Mega Millions is played in 44 states, plus the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. Deadline is 7:08 p.m.For the latest on Michigan Lottery, check out the official Michigan Lottery site, which also offers more information on instant tickets, raffles and other lottery games. The last players from Michigan to win a Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot is the Wolverine FLL lottery club which claimed a $1.05 billion jackpot in March 2021.

Someone has beaten the odds and won the estimated $1.28 billion Mega Millions jackpot. Lottery officials say there is one winning ticket and it was purchased in Illinois. The winning numbers drawn Friday night are: 13-36-45-57-67, with a Mega Ball of 14. The jackpot is the nation’s third-largest lottery prize. It grew so large because no one had matched the game’s six selected numbers since April 15. That’s 29 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner. The $1.28 billion prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years. Most winners opt for the cash option, which for Friday night’s drawing was an estimated $747.2 million.

There was one winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought in Illinois, according to megamillions.com.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued an executive order for the creation of a statewide office to oversee the distribution of more than $700 million over two decades to cities and neighborhoods in Illinois most affected by opioid addiction.

Heavy rains brought another round of flooding to the St. Louis region that was already recovering from record rains earlier this week, prompting firefighters to help dozens of people escape the floodwaters.

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Illinois has the most Muslims per capita than any other state in the country and a report three years in the making takes a deep dive into the community to help leaders better understand how to serve the state’s fast-growing and diverse Muslim population, said the Illinois Muslim Civic Coalition.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said he tested positive for COVID-19 and was in quarantine with what he described as minor symptoms.

Hundreds of Iraqi protesters breached Baghdad’s parliament on Wednesday chanting anti-Iran curses in a demonstration against a nominee for prime minister by Iran-backed parties. (July 28)

Prosecutors have said Crimo, 21, admitted to the shooting when police arrested him following an hours long search on July 4.

Attorneys for the 21-year-old suspect have not yet formally responded to any of the charges.

Now that the Mega Millions lottery jackpot has topped $1 billion, plenty of people who rarely play the game are considering risking $2 or joining an office pool in hopes of an immense payoff.

The benefit concert will be streamed live on the Smashing Pumpkins' official YouTube channel Wednesday night at 9 p.m. EST.

Google will be moving into the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago's Loop in a revamped deal of the state's sale of the Helmut Jahn-designed building to a developer.

Here are the winning Mega Millions numbers and results for the lottery jackpot drawing on Tuesday, July 26, 2022.

Recreational marijuana sales and tax revenue due in Illinois both shot up 50% in the past fiscal year.

Northwestern Memorial and Rush University Medical Center are among the top 20 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report

ERIE, PA — Trace amounts of genetic material from an invasive fish species known for leaping errantly from the water has been detected in Lake Erie. A similar, fruitless search was performed in parts of the Ohio River in Pennsylvania that year after invasive carp DNA samples were found. Invasive silver and bighead carp are established in the Ohio River and various tributaries downstream of the Robert C. Byrd Locks & Dam at Gallipolis, Ohio. Should they become established in the Great Lakes, bighead and silver carp would have a major disruptive impact on sport fishing and recreational boating. Related stories:Michigan DNR lukewarm to invasive carp rebrandGovernors, lawmakers push for invasive carp fundsCarp gauntlet gets nod in water infrastructure billIllinois will use Michigan’s $8M toward carp gauntletChicago sewers suspected as source of carp DNA spikeLive silver carp caught past electric barriersCarp plan: ‘We should have been here 10 years ago’

Men from Orland Park, Orland Hills and Burbank are charged with stealing nearly $300,000 in merchandise including more than 200 televisions from a Hodgkins rail yard.

A battle is brewing over leadership of the Illinois Democratic Party even as it seeks to land the party's presidential convention and an early date on the primary calendar.

Long before breaking with the former president and serving on the January 6 committee, Kinzinger worked to cope with Trump's influence on the party.

Shares of Weber tumbled after the company said CEO Chris Scherzinger is departing amid waning consumer demand.

The attacking dogs were leashed, but knocked their owner over and pulled away from her grasp, police said.

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has extended the deadline for residents to renew expiring driver’s licenses and identification cards to Dec. 1.

Due to the time it takes to start such a business, many of the new cannabis retail stores may not open until next year.

Chicago needs more monkeypox vaccines, Gov. J.B. Pritzker says.

United Airlines on Wednesday notched a key profit milestone in its pandemic recovery.

Erie United Methodist Church is sending a group to the Midwest Mission Distribution Center in Illinois. An ice cream social is one of the fundraisers.

A funeral service for 37-year-old Kevin McCarthy is scheduled for Monday afternoon in Skokie, Illinois.

Ann Arbor has snagged the top spot on Wallethub's 2022’s Most Educated Cities in America list for another year.

The person responsible for killing a Belleville resident during a road rage shooting that happened in broad daylight in Canton Township has been arrested in Illinois, officials said.

A business district that had been blocked since the deadly July 4 parade mass shooting in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park has reopened.

Mourners are remembering three of the seven people killed by the gunman who opened fire on a July Fourth parade near Chicago.

Officials have announced charges against the person suspected of killing seven people and injuring more than 30 others at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.

A Detroit native was attending the Highland Park Fourth of July parade on Monday and was one of the many that were injured.

Police are expected to announce charges against the suspected gunman who opened fire at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois on Monday.

Police say that a seventh person has died as a result of a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.

FBI agents are searching for evidence after a gunman opened fire on a Fourth of July parade from a suburban Chicago rooftop.

Two of Congress’ staunchest conservatives repelled more centrist challengers to lock up Republican nominations on Tuesday.

Seven states are set to host primary elections Tuesday as the nation comes to terms with last week’s stunning Supreme Court ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.

A Republican lawmaker from Illinois on Saturday night called the decision to overturn the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade a “victory for white life” during a rally alongside ex-President Donald Trump.

Asian Carp is getting a new name in the state of Illinois. On Wednesday the Illinois DNR held a virtual event with Chopped champion Brian Jupiter of Frontier and Ina Mae Tavern.

If “invasive carp” doesn't sound appetizing, how about a plate of copi.

Walmart is expanding health care coverage for employees who want to use a doula, a person trained to assist women during pregnancies, in an effort to address racial inequities in maternal care.

People are flocking to pools, beaches and cooling centers in a swath of the Midwest and South spanning from northern Florida to the Great Lakes, as a heat wave pushed temperatures into the 90s and beyond and may have caused the deaths of at least two people in the Milwaukee area.

Construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar says it's packing up its headquarters from its longtime home state of Illinois and heading to Texas.

Fresh Del Monte, a leading producer and distributor of fruits and vegetables, broke the world record for the World’s Largest Fruit Display in collaboration with Jewel-Osco.

Police are seeking information about a 40-year-old man last seen on May 9.

The Detroit Pistons are heading to Paris next season for a game with their division rival Chicago Bulls.

For some female incumbents running for reelection in Congress this year, holding their seats comes with a new challenge.

It’s been a lovely day thus far, but mid-afternoon satellite imagery shows some agitated cloud cover across Lake Michigan into northeast Illinois, moving eastward. High-resolution computer models suggest that a small area of showers or possibly even a thunderstorm could develop and cross southern Michigan through the early evening. Most of us will remain dry, but those south of 8 Mile Road may want to monitor the Local4Casters weather app’s real-time radar if you have outdoor plans early this evening.

Reproductive rights advocates are planning to open new abortion clinics or expand the capacity of existing ones in states without restrictive abortion laws.

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has agreed to restrict the use of its massive collection of face images to settle allegations that it collected people’s photos without their consent.

A Holocaust museum in Illinois is turning to tech to help give visitors a more engaging experience when learning about a traumatic event in world history.

Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys offered starkly different explanations Friday for the fatal beating of an Illinois prison inmate four years ago in closing arguments before a jury began deliberating in the trial of two former correctional officers.

Tim Stützle had two goals and an assist, and the Ottawa Senators beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-1.

Tom Parker, a member of British-Irish boy band The Wanted, has died after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.

A person with direct knowledge of the decision says South Carolina and Chattanooga’s Lamont Paris have reached a five-year deal for him to become the next men’s basketball coach.

Taze Moore scored 21 points, Jamal Shead added 18 and Houston, a Final Four team last season, advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament with a 68-53 win over Illinois.

We finally have a March featuring NCAA Tournament games with no crowd restrictions at sites across the country.

The complete lineup has been announced and tickets are now on sale for Downtown Detroit’s beloved annual music festival: Movement.

Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis is The Associated Press player of the year in the Big Ten Conference and the Badgers’ Greg Gard is coach of the year.

Tenth-ranked Wisconsin lost leading scorer Johnny Davis when he was injured on a flagrant foul early in the second half, and the Badgers also missed a chance to clinch the Big Ten title outright by falling to Nebraska 74-73.

Dylan Strome scored three goals and the Chicago Blackhawks had their highest-scoring game of the season in an 8-5 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday night.

Sasha Stefanovic scored 22 points, including a go-ahead 3 at the start of double overtime that sent No. 4 Purdue over No. 17 Illinois 96-88.

Illinois officials are seeking answers after the killing last week of a state child welfare worker during a home visit — the second such tragedy to occur in less than five years.

Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois has formally announced he won't seek a 16th term in the U.S. House.

Three Democratic attorneys general are seeking to overturn the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to force the federal government to recognize Virginia’s 2020 vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and add it to the Constitution.

The Arizona Bowl has been canceled after Boise State pulled out and shut down all team activities due to COVID-19 issues.

Search efforts at an Amazon facility in Illinois where at least six people were killed in a tornado are expected to take several days.

The governor of Kentucky is holding a news conference Saturday morning to discuss the deadly tornadoes that ripped through the state overnight Friday.

Kentucky's governor says tornadoes may have killed 70 people in the state and the death toll may exceed 100.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the bipartisan Council of Great Lakes Governors joined forces to ask federal leaders to include funding for the Brandon Road Lock and Dam in the 2022 Water Resources Reform and Development Act.

The Detroit Red Wings are heading back to Montreal on Tuesday for rematch with the Canadiens.

The NCAA has suspended Illinois center Kofi Cockburn for the first three games of the season because he sold apparel and memorabilia before new regulations that allow athletes to participate in money-making ventures went into effect.

Drew Timme of Gonzaga is the lone unanimous selection on The Associated Press preseason All-America team.