Article Summary Several new public safety laws will take effect Jan. 1. One new law requires gun owners to store ...

More than 700 Illinois schools are within a quarter-mile of crop fields, yet state law doesn’t require pesticide applicators to ...

Article Summary State lawmakers worked behind the scenes for weeks to craft a package to respond to the federal immigration ...

A Department of Justice attorney told a federal judge Thursday that the Trump administration’s Chicago-area “Operation Midway Blitz” immigration enforcement campaign isn’t over. The lawyer was ...

Article Summary The three top Democrats running for U.S. Senate recently released their economic proposals to address cost-of-living issues that ...

Article Summary Students in Illinois, like their peers nationwide, tend to score lower in math than they do in reading ...

This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to note tourists spent an estimated $48.5 billion in Illinois in 2024, ...

Article Summary A report by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute found federal budget cuts could reduce economic activity in Illinois ...

Former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson is seeking a new trial after his second-degree murder conviction last month. He was charged with murder for shooting Sonya Massey, an unarmed woman ...

Article Summary Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill allowing the Illinois Department of Public Health to issue vaccine guidance independent ...