Thousands gathered in Daley Plaza and in suburban events in protests timed to coincide with a military parade in Washington ...

Transit agencies in northern Illinois are facing a $771 million annual combined budget gap — and lawmakers did not pass ...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and a coalition of attorneys general won a court injunction challenging President Trump ...

The governors of Illinois, Minnesota and New York testified Thursday before the House Oversight Committee, which has been ...

Tim Walz called the attacks an “act of targeted political violence.” transcript State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, died in the attack at their home. The assailant also shot ...

Melissa Hortman, a Democratic state representative, and her husband were fatally shot on Saturday morning. John A. Hoffman, a ...

A measure Illinois lawmakers sent to Gov. JB Pritzker would streamline firearms ID process for low-level gun offenders.

The number of years former House Speaker Michael Madigan spent in Springfield has often been used as shorthand to explain his ...

Legislation that mandates the Illinois Department of Corrections to annually report on hospice and palliative care within its ...

In response to the new per-bet tax introduced by the legislature, the two largest online sportsbooks are charging users a per ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan was sentenced Friday to seven and a half years in federal prison and a $2.5 million fine in his corruption case.

The “Clean Slate” Act, which could have sealed thousands and potentially millions of nonviolent criminal records in Illinois, had bipartisan support but failed to pass in the final flurry of ...