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Once again, Wal-Mart tops the annual Global Fortune 500 list of top-earning corporations, released this week. Alex Chadwick talks with Bob Moon of Marketplace about the Arkansas-based retail giant, plus who else is on top this year.

The city of Chicago has one more thing to boast about: Its hometown orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, has been named America's top orchestra in a new critics' poll published in the venerable British magazine Gramophone.

By APChicago, IL – Impeached Governor Rod Blagojevich's former chief fundraiser has admitted he illegally used corporate funds to pay gambling debts and…

By Illinois Radio NetworkDuQuoin, IL – The grandstand entertainment at the DuQuoin State Fair this year will feature two country artists, an alternative…

By Jennifer FullerDuQuoin, IL – A DuQuoin man is in jail on a million dollars bond in connection to child pornography in southern Illinois.Murphysboro…

The Mississippi River is expected to crest today in the small Wisconsin town of Prairie du Chien. But the floods have already placed a tremendous financial burden on homeowners and businesses. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

If you woke up this morning, and your baby was gone -- or even if you just want to hear some good music -- Weekend Edition Saturday presents a list of links to blues festivals from the Delta to Prairie du Chien, and from deep down in Florida to the dock of the bay.

In two separate hearings on Wednesday, Democrats want Americans who haven't read Mueller's findings to see and hear them instead. Republicans want to take the former special counsel down a peg.

An estimated 9,000 people have been killed and another 5.6 million forced to flee their homes. NPR has spoken to Sudanese from different walks of life to hear how they're coping.

A young Air Force captain thought his career was over. Instead, he was invited to join a stealth program — and told, "You've got 30 seconds and if you don't say yes, this conversation never happened."