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Midway Airport ranked dead last in January for on-time departures among the nation's 29 busiest airports, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Tuesday.

Only 69 percent of flights departing Midway left on time during the month, which was marked by several snowstorms. The low performance rating occurred despite decisions by Southwest Airlines, the carrier with the most flights at the airport, to cancel hundreds of flights on the eve of bad weather.

December, January and February are historically among the worst months at O'Hare and Midway for on-time flights because of severe weather, said Karen Pride, spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Aviation.

Performance at O'Hare will improve when all the planned new runways are open, Pride said.

Performance at O'Hare will improve when all the planned new runways are open, Pride said.

O'Hare International Airport was far down the list as well, placing 26th out of 29 with an on-time departure rate...

SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday unveiled a caustic budget plan that would borrow billions of dollars to stay afloat and push even more debt down the road, hoping to persuade leery lawmakers to instead raise taxes in an election year.

Quinn aides warned the plan would cost some 13,000 teachers and staff their jobs, cut off poor seniors from help in paying costly prescriptions and shut down some health care programs for the indigent. But even after about $2 billion in cuts, the state would still be $11 billion in the hole.

The administration's warnings served as the precursor for the Democratic governor's Wednesday budget address before a joint session of lawmakers who want to wrap up their business in two months so they can focus on their re-election.

Click HERE for Quinn's 2011 budget overview.

Quinn is expected to restate the unsuccessful call he made last year for higher taxes.

But the political dynamics for a tax increase have grown onl...

Decatur police have issued an Amber Alert after two young boys, one of them a 1-month-old infant, who were abducted this afternoon.

Authorities said that J-Amarcus Upchurch and Terry Antonio Smith were taken by two men in the 1900 block of East Cantrell Street at about 3:30 p.m.

They were last seen in a silver passenger car with the partial Missouri license plate U D G, turning on to a side road off Cantrell Street.

J-Amarcus is described as a 1-month-old African-American boy, wearing a blue one-piece jumpsuit, weighing 8 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

Terry is a 4-year-old African-American boy about 3-foot-6, 60 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt and blue jeans.

The boys were taken by two African-Americ...

A man died tonight after he jumped into the south branch of the Chicago River to elude police, officials said.

The man, believed to be in his early 20s, was rushed to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:16 p.m., according to hospital spokesman Marcel Bright.

Aided by a police helicopter, the police Marine Unit worked for nearly an hour to rescue the man first spotted at about 6:45 p.m. in the river near the Turning Basin, in the 2800 block of South Ashland Avenue, officials said.

Authorities said the man was one of three men being pursued by officers for spray painting a building on Ashland Avenue, police spokesman Dan O'Brien said.

Officers were able to apprehend two of the men, O'Brien said, but the third leapt into the water to escape officers, a police source said.

--William Lee

Click HERE for a WGN-TV report on this story.