Article Summary Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Chicago canceled a meeting with Illinois Democratic members of Congress that was ...

Article Summary Former Republican State Sen. Darren Bailey launched his second campaign for governor on Thursday. Bailey said his message ...

Article Summary Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul won a court order barring the Trump administration from withholding federal emergency funding ...

Article Summary U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said there is a “chance” Illinois’ Democratic members of Congress get a long-requested meeting ...

Article Summary The Illinois Department of Public Health recommended all adults receive the COVID-19 vaccine this fall. The decision goes ...

Article Summary Tom DeVore, who unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for Illinois attorney general in 2022, will lose his law ...

Article Summary JB Pritzker signed an executive order requiring state agencies to identify spending reductions and reserve 4% of their ...

By: Jonathan Shorman, Stateline.org Article Summary The Trump administration has asked at least 27 states for sensitive voter information, including ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that Better Newspapers Inc. did not sell all of its newspapers to Paxton Media Group. Better Newspapers Inc. has sold eight Illinois newspapers to ...

Former Gov. Jim Edgar lies in state in the Illinois Capitol rotunda on Sept. 19, 2025. Edgar’s memorial service will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday at Central Baptist Church in Springfield. The event ...

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The long-running debate over energy policy is heating up ahead of lawmakers’ fall veto session. Lawmakers are considering loosening nuclear power regulations and incentivizing battery storage.