Aid-in-dying legislation remains at the Illinois Statehouse after it failed to clear the Illinois Senate before legislators ...

The plan would let those with less than six months to live end their own lives with a physician’s help. Cardinal Blase Cupich ...

Legislation that would allow terminally ill people to end their lives with the help of a doctor was passed by the Illinois House and now heads to the Senate.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, was among those who criticized the bill. The cardinal noted that Catholic ...

In today's edition of Illinois in Focus Daily, The Center Square Associate Editor Greg Bishop reviews the various ...

A state committee voted to push forward a bill that would let terminally ill patients request life-ending medication.

The Illinois House passed a plan Thursday night to allow anyone dying of a terminal illness within six months to have the ...

The bill would legalize the use of prescription drugs that aid in dying, what’s commonly referred to as physician-assisted suicide.

The procedure, which advocates and the bill call “medical aid in dying,” would give people ... Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government ...

It marks the first time a medical aid in dying bill has passed through one legislative chamber in Illinois since advocates unsuccessfully pushed for the practice to be legalized in the state last ...