Lawmakers apparently are close to a deal to resolve one of Springfield's most hotly contested issues this session: transit reform.

ISP said during a news conference on Thursday that the cause of the accident that killed four may have been a medical emergency.

A car’s crash into an after-school program building in central Illinois – a wreck that killed four people ages 7 to 18 and injured six other children – does not appear to have been a targeted attack, ...