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

The funeral for former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar will be held on Saturday morning, with services scheduled for 11 a.m. at ...

The late former Gov. Jim Edgar was memorialized Saturday as a man whose compassion, integrity, and honesty showed he put people above politics and led Illinois as a model of what competent governance ...

More than 300 family, friends, former staff and agency directors, as well as past and current public officials, gathered Saturday at Central Baptist Church in Springfield to celebrate Edgar’s life, to ...

Jim Edgar reshaped Illinois politics by winning over suburban women and staying true to his insistence that the state live within its means.

Former Gov. Jim Edgar lies in state in the Illinois Capitol rotunda on Friday. Edgar’s memorial service is taking place at 11 ...

"It exemplified the need for compromise," Schoenburg added. "Edgar actually believed in it, pushed it and got good people ...

Illinois mourns the death of former Governor Jim Edgar at 79, who passed away from pancreatic cancer, with a memorial service ...

Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar’s funeral is set for Saturday after he died following a battle with pancreatic caner.

Services honoring former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar are set to take place on Saturday morning. Edgar, a two-term Republican who served as Illinois’ 38th governor from 1991 to 1999, died Sunday at age ...