Former Illinois law enforcement officials are sounding the alarm that eliminating cash bail is a "backdoor way" to defund police and will likely lead to a mass exodus of officers.

Though this movement seems political, organizers of the ballot referendum disagree. "It's more of a cultural divide," Loret Newlin from the Illinois Separation Referendum previously told Axios.

The vote in favor of civil unions is one in a long string of achievements for the gay rights movement in Illinois, going back nearly 90 years. Latest U.S.

The recent rumblings from downstate Illinois have caught the attention of lawmakers across the border in Indiana, where ...

Don't look now, but the so-called ESG movement is now coming to Chicago.. As if the Windy City and State of Illinois didn't already have enough problems to deal with, the Wall Street Journal ...

Illinois is home to five of the most significant figures and events in the history of the nation’s labor movement, including the strike that led to the creation of Labor Day.

No Illinois group was included in a 1994 study of the militia movement conducted by the Anti Defamation League, which estimates there are 10,000 militia members in 30 states.

Illinois isn't alone in that movement. Counties in eastern Oregon have made noise about joining Idaho. Upstate New York could also separate, and conversations are being had in Minnesota, ...

After decades of declining union membership and declining unionization rates, U. of I.’s Robert Bruno, a coauthor of the report, said those numbers may signal a resurgence in the labor movement.

In Illinois, a resolution calling on Congress to declare Chicago the 51st state has eight Republican cosponsors in the state House (there are 44 Republicans in the lower chamber) and support among ...

An extended version of this essay appears in Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo (eds. A. Ginsburg, A. Hughes, A. Hussain, and A. Petty) published by ...