Former Gov. Jim Edgar’s funeral service was held at Central Baptist Church on Sept. 20 after his casket lay in state at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. The two-term Republican governor, who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The late former Gov. Jim Edgar was memorialized Saturday as a man whose compassion, integrity, and honesty ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO (WGN) — Services honoring former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar unolded on Saturday morning in Springfield. Edgar, a two-term ...

U.S. Vice President Al Gore, center, Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, right, with glasses, and Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, left, of Gore, listen as Grafton Mayor Gerrald Nairn, seated next to Gore, ...

Visitors, including Edgar's family, also paid their respects Friday as he lay in state at the Illinois Capitol Building. The former governor served two terms in the 1990s. Edgar died last weekend at ...

Horses of racing age and breeding stock owned by the late Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar will be dispersed in Indiana Oct. 11-12. Six yearlings bred by Edgar and consigned by Breakway Farm, agent, will be in ...

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 ...

Memorial services for former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar will take place Saturday as the state pays tribute to "a leader who cared, not just about results, but about people." Prior to the funeral, Edgar's ...

Mourners fill the pews at Central Baptist Church near the state Capitol to mourn and praise the moderate two-term Republican. SPRINGFIELD — Hundreds celebrated the life and mourned the death of former ...