Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar is lying in state at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield ahead of his funeral this ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar will be laid to rest this week. He died Sunday at the age of 79, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. On Friday, Governor Edgar will lie in-state ...

Jim Edgar, Illinois’ 38th governor who served from 1991 to 1999, died Sunday after disclosing an aggressive cancer diagnosis ...

The third floor of Horace Mann’s modernist glass and steel tower in downtown Springfield is now home to the University of Illinois Springfield Innovation Center, which includes the Innovate ...

Mourners fill the pews at Central Baptist Church near the state Capitol to mourn and praise the moderate two-term Republican.

Services have been scheduled for former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar. The two-term Republican died Sunday after a battle with ...