Features

The healing ground
Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie photo essay




Use of bike trails grows
by Chris Young
State's pathways now considered more than recreation.



Nuclear renaissance
by Jamey Dunn
Illinois lawmakers consider lifting a 23-year-old moratorium on new reactors

News
Illinois Issues wins national journalism honors

The federal case against Rod Blagojevich, five others

The 75-page federal indictment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and five members of his inner circle details an extensive and long-term scheme that allegedly began in 2002, before Blagojevich took his oath of office in January 2003.

• NEW: Federal wiretaps of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich
• News release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District
• Superseding indictment (pdf) and Fact sheet (pdf)

Past Blagojevich coverage

Rod Blagojevich’s indictment and arrest have recently made the former Illinois governor a household name across the nation, but Illinois Issues has been writing about him since he first ran for the state’s highest office in 2002.

Here are links to Illinois Issues articles, blog posts and an excerpt from Center Publications’ book, The Illinois Governors: Mostly Good and Competent, chronicling the rise and fall of this controversial public figure from his beginnings on the statewide stage to the present.