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

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

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

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.

CHICAGO Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul today issued a statement on a decision by the District Court for the District ...

A former Minnesota House speaker and her husband were killed and a state senator and his wife were wounded in targeted ...

At universities in California, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas, students report changes to campus clubs and activities, diminished research opportunities and fears for international students’ safety.

SPRINGFIELD - Chris Mitchell, commissioner of the Granite City Park District, recently attended the Illinois Association of ...

Six months ago, plugged-in Chicago politico Forrest Claypool sounded the alarm about rising pensions debts and called for dramatic action to bring them under control.

They are trying to strike a careful balance on issues where Republicans have held a political advantage in recent years.

The judge who sentenced Michael Madigan to 7 1/2 years in prison said the former Illinois House speaker's testimony was “a nauseating display of perjury and evasion” that was “hard to watch.” “You ...

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, ...