SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — 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 ...

The Illinois Armory, which sat vacant for years across the street from the State Capitol, was renamed Tuesday well ahead of ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar died Sunday at the age of 79, according to multiple sources. Edgar, who served as Illinois’ 38 th governor from 1991 to 1999, was widely regarded as a ...

Jim Edgar, a former Illinois governor who has gone down as one of the most successful and popular politicians in the state's history, has died. Edgar died on Sunday from complications of pancreatic ...

Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a moderate Republican who led the state from 1991 to 1999, died Sunday in a Springfield hospital. Edgar died from complications of his treatment for pancreatic cancer.

CHICAGO — 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 family.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — On Wednesday, Governor JB Pritzker announced that the historic Illinois State Armory in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.