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

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.

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

Michael Broadway, 51, died months before a judge ordered Stateville prison vacated. A new lawsuit aims to hold the state ...

Governor JB Pritzker joined University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen, government officials, and cannabis ...