WIBW-TV Topeka - Fri Nov 20

Less than a month before the start of the Civil War, a newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln took time from his frantic schedule to write to a child in Illinois whose classmates didn't believe he'd met the president.

CBS News - Fri Nov 20

Updated at 12:55 p.m. ET . A Senate ethics panel cleared Sen. Roland Burris of any legal wrongdoing, after months of questions swirling around his appointment to the Senate seat President Obama left vacant upon taking office.

Herald News - Fri Nov 20

Sometimes it seems that Joliet residents are upset about a potential 20 percent hike in the property tax rate.