The budget proposal, revealed a day before a key deadline to pass it, includes more than $1 billion in tax increases — but ...

The Illinois House and Senate need to approve a state budget plan before the legislative session ends Saturday. A $55 billion ...

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

A bill that seeks to control the rising cost of prescription drugs while also offering financial help for many small, ...

Bisofa has already made the case that she’s the best discus thrower in Illinois at the moment. A three-sport athlete, Bisofa ...

Federal prosecutors argued that, not only was Madigan's decades-long reign as speaker "steeped in corruption," but that he ...

A man died after a shootout with police who were responding to an armed robbery in southwest suburban Hickory Hills on ...

The Safe Gun Storage Act would require owners to keep firearms in a locked box wherever they know “or reasonably should know” ...

The Chicago area is facing the prospect of bleak service cuts to public transit if Illinois legislators adjourn this weekend ...

We are all familiar with the chilling statistics that guns are the No. 1 cause of death for our children in the United States ...

On the second-to-last day of the spring legislative session, Illinois lawmakers have finally proposed a new bill outlining ...

A new bill sent to Gov. JB Pritzker's desk would raise the age at which seniors in Illinois are required to take driving ...