After stepping down, controversial Northern Illinois University President Doug Baker accepted a $600,000 severance package.

U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL) has joined a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers in introducing a bill intended to empower small businesses by providing tax incentives for investing in employee training, according to a press release.

Tim Kirsininkas had high hopes Northern Illinois University (NIU) could rise above the ethical morass that so often seems to be where state politics resides.

Government watchdogs, legislators and the media are questioning the continued tenure of Northern Illinois University's president in the wake of an investigation that determined he had mismanaged the university.

Nancy Suttenfield, a former interim chief financial officer at Northern Illinois University (NIU), ordered her staff to “delete your emails to me to protect yourself,” according to the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW).

Many freshmen lawmakers say the crash and burn they saw on Wednesday night came about because the Democrats don't know how to drive.

Many freshmen lawmakers say the crash and burn they saw on Wednesday night came about because the Democrats don't know how to drive.

Sen. Andy Manar (D-Bunker Hill) is demanding a state investigation after the Kankakee Times reported on the anticipated district-by-district financial impact of his Senate Bill 1, which promises to change the state's formula for dispensing money to public schools.