Illinois

Peace and quiet are major factors why people are moving from more crowded states like New York and California for smaller-yet-growing states like Tennessee, but other reasons have accelerated peoples’ ...

CHICAGO—Illinois prosecutors told a judge Thursday that they are presenting evidence to a grand jury for a possible ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Two Illinois emergency medical professionals should be tried on first-degree murder charges after a patient they strapped ...

An Illinois judge has blocked the gun control law Protecting Illinois Communities Act (the Act), enacted on Jan. ...

A federal lawsuit filed this week is one of several new complaints seeking to assert that a recently ...

Last week, the governor of Illinois signed into law a new bill making it illegal for anyone in ...

The remains of a missing Illinois woman were discovered more than five years after she was last seen, ...

At least 94 of Illinois’s 102 county sheriffs expressed disapproval of the Protect Illinois Communities Act signed by ...

Sheriffs from numerous Illinois counties on Wednesday said they won't enforce a new ban on so-called “assault weapons” ...

A massive fire that erupted Wednesday morning at a chemical plant in La Salle, Ill., has been contained, ...

A chemical plant in northern Illinois went up in flames on Wednesday morning, sending up plumes of black ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday announced he signed a ban on "assault weapons" and magazines that hold ...

The Illinois General Assembly will consider a bill to place further restrictions on gun owners in a state ...

The Illinois Supreme Court placed on hold a portion of a controversial law known as the SAFE-T Act ...

An Illinois judge ruled Wednesday that parts of the state's controversial SAFE-T act was unconstitutional just days before ...

A business owner filed a federal civil rights class action lawsuit against Cook County, Ill., over a new ...

Fourth-year guard Kobe Brown set career highs with 31 points and eight assists to lead Missouri to a ...

A U.S. judge approved a multimillion-dollar settlement on Dec. 19 for workers who were fired by an Illinois ...

State Sen. Michael Hastings (D-Frankfort) will not be re-appointed to head a legislative panel in next year's session ...

A new policy introduced by the Illinois Department of Corrections and the Illinois Justice Project (ILJP) focuses on ...

In response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the Illinois Senate has passed a bill that would ...

State legislators in Illinois head into the year’s final session with possible changes to a controversial criminal justice ...

Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit watchdog, places Illinois hospitals at 28th in the United States, based on protection from ...

Unions across Illinois are celebrating the passage of a labor rights amendment to the state constitution that would ...

Andra Ebert established the miniature equine visiting nonprofit, Heartland Mini Hoofs, in 2014 in central Illinois with the ...

Authorities in Champaign County, Illinois, said Tuesday that a cyberattack is affecting server performance during the 2022 midterm ...

A Chicago man has been arrested and charged after authorities say he left threatening voicemails for a Republican ...