Patch Flash: Quinn to Deliver State of the State Address Today

Jobs and economic development will be the focus of that he will give today, Wednesday, at the capitol in Springfield. “That's foremost on the minds of everyday people in our state," Quinn said Tuesday in Chicago. "We have to have robust economic growth and jobs in order to be a good state." The address begins at noon. 

. Norma C. Kienker, 88, worked as a homemaker and volunteer most of her adult life. 

It was a little more than six months ago when Gabriella ‘Gabby’ Drozdz was hit and killed by a still unidentified motorist as she and two friends walked to Alpine Fest about 9:15 p.m. Friday July 22, 2011. running down leads from tips from the public and area law enforcement, in addition to drawing clues from information at the scene of the accident that occurred on Church Street near Jamie Lane.

When the Deerfield High School year began in August most seniors were already focused on their May 19 prom but few were thinking about the G8 Summit occurring in Chicago at the same time. Shortly after the first of the year the event bringing not only President Barack Obama but the heads of state of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United Kingdom to Chicago started to change student plans. As Student Activity Director Brian Verisario learned about  

Lake County has approved the construction of three new segments of bike path that will complete the Prairie Crossing Bike Path this fall. 

May Tchao, an Evanston filmmaker, explores the state of gender equality in China in  an upcoming film, "Rise of the Phoenix." Tchao returned to the country where she was born to not only to document how Chinese women today are faring in the vastly changing Eastern nation, but also to delve into whatcould have been if she stayed in China, rather than uprooting her life and moving to the United States many years ago.