Jurors started deliberating at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in Chicago. Judge John Robert Blakey handed the case to the jury shortly after 3 p.m.

The Reading Planning Commission voted Tuesday to reaffirm the adaptive reuse of a former city hotel building. The commission initially approved the plan to develop the Berkshire Building, 101 N. Fifth ...

The immediate threat by the Trump administration of cutting off federal funding seems to have passed, but the incident is affecting Gov. JB Pritzker's thinking on what promises to be a tight state ...

It isn't just frustrated partisans on social media who think Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Democrats need to do more to ...

On a call with Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, six Democratic governors pushed him to slow down the confirmation ...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker emerged as a forceful voice among suddenly wakened Democrats against the Trump administration ...

A federal judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump's move to freeze all federal grants pending an analysis to root out ...

The Illinois Department of Transportation will close over 3 miles of Interstate 255 in Metro East for six months starting ...

Local leaders have positioned the state as a safe haven for abortion, which may draw more scrutiny under the new ...

President Trump on Monday fired all three Democrats on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), bringing much ...

Shabbona Lake State Park will remain open to the public even after the passage of a bill transferring its ownership to the ...

A state lawmaker is accusing U.S. senators and the governor of taking credit for Stellantis bringing jobs back to Belvidere, ...