State Sen. Emil Jones III, who remains in the Illinois Senate two-and-a-half years after being charged with bribery, faces trial April 7.

"This crusade will continue," Minority Leader Everett Dirksen pledged after an uneasy Senate failed to support his constitutional amendment to permit voluntary prayer in public schools.

"Ha, ha, ha. And I might add: ho, ho, ho," observed Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois when recently asked his opinion on a proposed change in a procedural rule. The Republican Minority Leader's ...