CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican credited with guiding the state into a period of greater financial stability in the 1990s, died Sunday, according to his ...

Egler was the Springfield bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune for 14 years before going to work for GOP Gov. Jim Edgar and ...

The death of former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar was personal for me. I share a hometown with Edgar, who died Sunday at age 79. Not only did we both grow up in Charleston, Illinois, but Edgar and my ...

Egler was also instrumental in the planning of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.

“Jim Edgar believed deeply in our individual and our collective responsibility to one another — that regardless of where we live, what we look like or who we voted for, our foremost obligation is to ...

Dan Egler, former speechwriter for Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar in the 1990s and campaign manager for Bloomington GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady in the 2000s, has died at age 78.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jim Edgar was a Governor with 55 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1990 Speech as a Secretary for the State. The year with the most videos was 1993 ...

I appreciate the tribute to Jim Edgar on the front page on Sept. 16. However, there was one glaring omission. It failed to mention his extraordinary record on conservation.