Both became lawyers. They each served in the Illinois state legislature before serving one term in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

He served for 8 years in the Illinois state Senate before voters elected him to the United States Senate in 2004.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Professor Warren Schmaus of the Illinois Institute of Technology says the union of evolution and genetics only started around the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Rahm Emanuel had to go through a legal fight all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court just to get on the ballot.

VOA: special.2011.04.25

He served in the Illinois state legislature and in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Tom Schwartz is the Illinois state historian and an expert on Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The Illinois team led for much of the competition.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

"This is where we decided to draw the battle lines." John Rogner,the assistant director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

The group routinely patrols the Illinois River near Havana - searching for Asian Carp, which are not hard to find.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

He seeks catfish and buffalo fish, tastier and more marketable species found in lakes and rivers like the Illinois River.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

They are known as Asian Carp and the explosion of their population in the Illinois River is a concern to large-river ecologist Kevin Irons.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

There are two types of Asian Carp in the Illinois River - bighead and silver.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Gary Lutterbie is a fish biologist with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

But the Illinois Department of Natural Resources is confident their containment measures are working, as they have yet to find more Asian carp above the electric barrier.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Irons is part of a team with the Illinois Natural History Survey.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Chad Isaak, who has fished the Illinois River for 27 years, he saw his first Asian carp in 1996, and his life as a commercial fisherman has not been the same since.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

This part of the Illinois River near Morris is several miles southwest of the electronic fish barrier, a critical point along the Illinois waterway system meant to stop the Asian Carp from reaching Lake Michigan.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

On a warm summer day, when he usually would not be fishing - and on a part of the Illinois River where commercial fishing is normally illegal - Isaak and his fellow fisherman are casting their nets to drive the Asian Carp out of the water.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

David Robson from the University of Illinois Extension says the best results come from moist, richly organic black soil.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

Project scientist Harris Lewin from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign predicts there will be more laboratory cows in the future.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

Last month,the organization, based in Chicago,Illinois, told twenty-four people that they had been chosen for the yearly fellowship award.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

The experts at the University of Illinois say pieces that weigh less than thirty grams may not produce as much.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Fabian Fernandez, a soil and plant nutrition expert at the University of Illinois, says no-till means less intensive labor.

VOA: special.2010.09.28

Ships can enter the Saint Lawrence River on the east coast of Canada and travel to Chicago, Illinois or Duluth,Minnesota.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Scott was sold in Missouri to an army doctor who took him to Illinois and then went into the Wisconsin territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The other schools in the top five were the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Purdue University in West Lafayette,Indiana.

VOA: special.2009.11.26