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, the two-term Republican governor who guided Illinois through much of the 1990s with a low-key yet intense persona and a meticulous focus on fiscal matters aimed at preparing the state for ...

The body of former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar will lie in state in the Illinois State Capitol Rotunda on Friday, and a memorial service will be held the following day. Edgar died on Sunday from ...

Tributes are pouring in after former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar died Sunday at the age of 79. Edgar, who served as Illinois’ governor for two terms in the 1990s, is being remembered as a statesman who ...

Calling his impact on the state of Illinois "incalculable," hundreds came to Springfield in Saturday to say their final farewells to former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar. The funeral service was held at ...

FILE - Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar speaks during a campaign rally outside the state Capitol on Nov. 3, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File) CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois Gov.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a Charleston native whose blend of candor and fiscal discipline defined his two terms as the state's chief executive, died on Sunday. He was 79.

CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican credited with guiding the state into a period of greater financial stability in the 1990s, died Sunday, according to his ...