No state is immune from the negative effects of an economic downturn, but Illinois is more prepared today than it was for the ...

Illinois lawmakers passed legislation in 2018 to allow the commercial production of hemp, the same year Congress legalized hemp nationwide through the 2018 Farm Bill.

The CTA’s Red Line Extension project will create four new stops on the Far South Side. Residents in nearby communities harbor ...

Solis’ undercover work helped bring down two of Illinois’ biggest and longest-serving Democratic powerbrokers. Former Chicago ...

On Tuesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it was proposing to list the monarch butterfly as an endangered species. A final decision is expected by the end of the year.

Jesse Jackson Jr. served in Congress for 17 years until he resigned in 2012 amid a criminal investigation. He was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to ...

After an extraordinarily short day of trial Monday, jurors may only remember one detail: those high up in Gov. J.B.

At issue is concerns over drug exposures tied to physical mail and whether paper should be digitally scanned for incarcerated people. That debate may be over as IDOC signed a contract in October that ...

“A budget that would lay off workers and cut services is just, you know, one that should not be tolerated by any Chicagoan,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.

Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability President Anthony Driver, Jr., said he had no doubt that he was stopped because he is a 6-foot-3-inch Black man who weighs more than 200 ...

The first professions to be licensed under the new system are clinical psychologists, music therapists and nail technicians.

Solis’ extraordinary cooperation deal will see the single bribery charge that was eventually pressed against him in 2022 ...