Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch hired a new appropriations staff director and plans on making operational changes in 2025.

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

Voting for Donald Trump does not make me racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic or any other “-ist” and “-ic” I’ve been ...

I’m a proud, first-generation, college-educated and gay Mexican American with undocumented family in the United States, including a mother who was previously deported to Mexico, and I experienced ...

CITY HALL HOO-HA: In an extraordinary rebuke to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, even his allies joined in voting down his budget proposal — which included a $300 million property tax increase. The ...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois is raising concerns over nominations President-elect Donald Trump is naming to fill his ...

ALTON - During a press conference at The Wedge Innovation Center, Governor J.B. Pritzker answered several questions about the ...

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

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

Governor JB Pritzker tours The Wedge Innovation Center in Alton, set to open in February 2025, highlighting its potential for ...

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