An Illinois lawmaker has introduced a bill that critics say will make it legal for anyone experiencing a mental health episode to attack police officers. Democratic state Rep. Lisa Davis, an attorney ...

High Speed Rail Alliance, a Chicago-based advocacy group, is throwing its support behind three state bills that, if passed, ...

Illinois companies announced 1,666 mass layoffs in February, with more than 4-in-5 impacting workers in Cook County.

Dane Koteski, 46, the CEO of ATG Truckload, was found dead at the company’s offices in Crestwood on Wednesday, March 5.

After several years of decline, the population is increasing, helped by immigration, while outbound migration slows.

In a news conference marking 100 days in office, Gordon said the increase in requests for birth certificates and marriage ...

Officials in Cook County, Illinois, are refusing to meekly submit to US president Donald Trump’s anti-diversity, equity and ...

The deal, put forward at a Bureau County Board meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 14, would have sent up to 50 of Cook County's inmates ...

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

Advocates say community outreach and better naloxone distribution helped drive the state’s first decline since 2018.

John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell were teenagers when they were coerced into giving false confessions in a 2003 murder in ...

HOLLAND, Mich. — The Holland Police Department assisted authorities from Illinois in arresting a person suspected in ...