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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Senate is expected to vote on two bills aimed at reining in the cost of prescription drugs. The Prescription Drug ...

As Illinois faces a population decline, some cities like Champaign are experiencing growth, while others, such as Springfield ...

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 ...