CHICAGO (WREX) — Someone paid a visit to Illinois and got paid back big time. A tourist bought a lottery ticket at a store in Chicago, according to Illinois Lottery officials, and won a nearly $ ...

1:50 Illinois parade shooting leaves 2-year-old boy orphaned, covered in blood Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti handed down seven consecutive sentences of life in prison, as prosecutors ...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Grieving relatives and survivors of a mass shooting at a 2022 July Fourth parade recounted harrowing details for hours in a packed courtroom this week, telling a judge that the ...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man has been sentenced to life in prison after admitting to deadly mass shooting at 2022 July Fourth parade.

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said Wednesday that he will not seek reelection in 2026, ending his more than four-decade career ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Dick Durbin of Illinois, the US Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, won't seek reelection to a sixth term in 2026.

Bill Owens, the top producer at 60 Minutes, announced Tuesday that he’s quitting the show because he’s not able to run the program like he has in the past. In a memo to staff members ...

CHICAGO — Jurors on Tuesday resumed deliberations in the federal corruption trial of state Sen. Emil Jones III, after nine days in which prosecutors argued Jones had sold his power as a state ...

BROCKWAY – A leak in a molten glass tank at Owens-Illinois Glass Plant 19 on Easter Sunday drew a multi-department emergency response as crews worked for hours to contain the situation and ...

Ex-Corrections Officer From Mount Vernon Smuggles Drugs Behind Bars: Here's Her Fate Kilos Of Cocaine, Crack, Heroin Found In Search Of Business, Home In Mount Vernon: Police Diddy Pleads Not Guilty: ...