The budget proposal, revealed a day before a key deadline to pass it, includes more than $1 billion in tax increases — but ...

Legislation that would allow terminally ill people to end their lives with the help of a doctor was passed by the Illinois ...

On the second-to-last day of the spring legislative session, Illinois lawmakers have finally proposed a new bill outlining ...

Illinois Democrats introduced what a leading budgeteer described as a $55 billion budget Friday evening ahead of a Saturday ...

The Chicago area is facing the prospect of bleak service cuts to public transit if Illinois legislators adjourn this weekend ...

The Safe Gun Storage Act would require owners to keep firearms in a locked box wherever they know “or reasonably should know” ...

A man died after a shootout with police who were responding to an armed robbery in southwest suburban Hickory Hills on ...

Federal prosecutors argued that, not only was Madigan's decades-long reign as speaker "steeped in corruption," but that he ...

We are all familiar with the chilling statistics that guns are the No. 1 cause of death for our children in the United States ...

Weather experts forecast smoky skies in Chicago this weekend as wildfire smoke from Canada migrates into the U.S. Here's the ...

A man in Marengo, Illinois, is on a mission to fully restore a World War II-era B-17 bomber—a project he’s been diligently ...

The SEC even went so far as providing a seven-page document outlining the "regular-season gauntlet" its conference's members ...