* Illinois third in foreclosures despite national improvement

* Illinois Swamped With Foreclosures

* Chuck Sweeny: Casino chances; F-22 problems; memorial service

* Tax on adult clubs approved by Senate committee

* Strip club tax could benefit Illinois rape crisis centers

* Update: Strip club surcharge amendment passes committee, heads to Senate floor

* Simon: Advocates, industry compromise on strip club bill - Club fees would help restore cuts to rape crisis centers

* Higher minimum wage to be subject for negotiations

* IL Senate committee votes to send minimum-wage hike to the floor

* Minimum Wage Hike Advances At Capitol

* Bill increasing Illinois’ minimum wage moves forward

* Lawmakers pass stricter supervision bill for extreme speeders

* Legislation would rule out supervision for some speeders

* Ill. senators push miniature horse bill

* Illinois legislative leaders eye gambling as for budget ills

* Bernard Schoenburg: Bomke’s firm gets sanitary district pact

* Luciano: Smoke, mirrors hide real objective

* Schilling sent $293,000 in tax-funded mailings last nine months of 2011

* Lipinski Urges More Trains Along Heritage

* Talk of the County

* Mayor Rahm Emanuel hasn’t delivered promised cuts in his office

* ‘Confidence’ one of mayor’s building blocks for new office tower

* Editorial: The mess in Proviso Township

* Editorial: No real innocents in Burge’s world of torture

* CPS plans 60 more charters in 5 years

* 50 Wards in 50 Weekdays: 33rd Ward’s Manuel LePorte enjoys neighborhood peacefulness, but not the winters

* Teachers union sets big protest rally right after NATO

* IDOT meets stakeholders to discuss plan

* State: EMS group honors Dugan