State News

Amid state and federal scrutiny as well as a public backlash, more than a half-dozen suburban Chicago families who had recently gone to cour…

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker said Illinois will not use federal family planning funds as long as Republican President Donald Trump's admin…

SPRINGFIELD – An investigation into the “workplace culture” of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s office found his former chief of sta…

SPRINGFIELD – Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker joined with Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights advocates Monday in denouncing the Trum…

SANDWICH – Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Naperville, began the discussion at her roundtable discussion Monday with talk of the Older Americans Ac…

CHICAGO – Diabetics skipping regular checkups. Young asthmatics not getting preventive care. A surge in expensive emergency room visits.

In December 2016, Jeff and Kristi Cordle – formerly of Huntley but now living in the Quad Cities – lost their 22-year-old son, Pierce, to su…

SPRINGFIELD – One of the top Republican leaders in the U.S. House told the Illinois GOP on Thursday that the state party can rebound, despit…

This year’s Illinois corn crop could be as much as 17% smaller than last year’s, while soybean production could fall as much as 21%, the U.S…

SPRINGFIELD – Leading Illinois Republicans acknowledged the stark political reality their party faces in the state at a joint breakfast of t…