More than a dozen people were interested in becoming the Ward 1 alderman in Springfield, including 12 people being interviewed.

President Donald Trump's new war on diversity programs has renewed a long-running legal battle over the meaning the ...

Over the past decade, the job description for the mayor of Chicago has included a new duty: responding to Donald Trump. The ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is ...

Republican lawmakers put forward a proposal to expel students who sexually assault another student at school.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker flamed President Donald Trump for issuing a pardon of the January 6th Capitol rioters by calling the decision an "attack on police." ...

Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin criticized the Trump administration for allowing Dr. Phil McGraw to join deportation ...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s directive to bar individuals pardoned for their involvement in the January 6, 2021, U.S.

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The cases highlight increasing debate over cannabis potency as the percentage of THC — the component that gets users high — ...

The fast food giant agreed to drop a requirement that at least one of an applicant’s parents be of Latino or Hispanic ...

A federal appeals court struck down a longstanding federal ban that prevented the sale of handguns to Americans between the ages of 18 and 20 - a landmark gun control regulation in place since 1968.