There was a new motion Friday in the fight over Illinois' assault weapons ban. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul said the ...

California, the most populous state in the country, is leading efforts to protect rights ahead of the president-elect’s ...

Ferguson will be one of a handful of people who served as attorney general at the start of Trump’s first term to be governor ...

Illinois is getting more than half-a-billion dollars from the federal government to invest in clean energy and help reduce pollution throughout the state.

Gottheimer, a New Jersey congressman, announced Friday morning that he is running to succeed Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat who ...

Only two states have meaningful safeguards barring the transfer of undocumented people to ICE. Expect "shock and awe," warned ...

Voters in the metro-east county made it the 33rd to approve the symbolic measure to form a new state without Cook County.

While the president-elect promises clean air and water, climate and equity take a back seat to fossil fuel excavation.

Thomas Homan, president-elect Donald Trump's new 'border czar,' had a message last week for Democratic governors who stated that they would protect immigrants in their states from mass deportations: ...

Illinois Democrats prepare to counter policies of a second Trump administration, focusing on protecting state values.

Robert Jones, the first Black chancellor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, plans to resign at the end of the ...

A state pilot program designed to erase medical debt for 300,000 Illinois residents has already helped thousands eliminate ...