Iowa men's basketball faced off against Illinois in the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday. Here's how it went down for the Hawkeyes and Fran McCaffery.

McCaffery earned two quick technicals and an ejection after disagreeing with a call midway through the second half

Fran McCaffery likely entered Thursday with the knowledge he could be coaching his final game with Iowa. If so, the Hawkeyes coach went out the way he lived. Midway through the second half of a Big Ten tournament game against Illinois,

Under proposed legislation, Illinois would explore the viability of reducing reliance on the state's gas tax by putting in place a "road usage charge," essentially a tax on the number of miles driven.

An Illinois representative has introduced legislation to tax road mileage as the state sees less revenue from the gas tax.

A new proposal in Springfield would change how Illinois funds its roads by charging drivers by the mile instead of a gas tax, with a pilot program to study the effectiveness of the program.

Gov. JB Pritzker warned at an Illinois Education Association convention Thursday that cuts to federal education funding could “damage the future of the people of Illinois,” shortly