The Illinois Big Tree Register is being tidied up and brings a reminder of how many champion trees are around us, including ...

State supreme court races are becoming increasingly nationalized, politicized, and costly. The race to control the Badger ...

Adam writes about state and ... authors of the Illinois report, note that Illinois’s social mobility score ranks 40 th among the states and is the lowest in the Midwest (see map below).

A detailed state-county map of Illinois. Picture: iStock Donald Trump supporters cheer as the American flag is untangled before he speaks. Picture: Rebecca Droke/AFP The Hoosier (corn) State may ...

The proposed law introduced would bar the federal Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments ...

On the other side of the spectrum, a slew of Western and Southern states have set themselves apart for having the lowest ...

With the madness about to begin, Editor Jeff D'Alessio takes a stroll down Big Ten memory lane with former players, coaches ...

Illinois Republicans filed a lawsuit asking the state’s highest court ... has called the current legislative map “one of the most corrupt in American history.” The complaint, filed by ...

The deadline for Illinois residents to get their REAL ID is coming up, but do your really need to get one? Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias ... belonged to one of America's wealthiest Gilded ...

Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel have traded attacks that have little connection with what Supreme Court justices actually do.

The group, Building America’s Future, has bought $1.6 million of advertising ... that had imposed a near total ban on ballot drop boxes and striking down state legislative maps drawn by Republicans.