County officials argue they are “compelled” by the state to seize property in a way the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unlawful ...

A bill throwing out the welcome mat to separation-minded counties in Illinois has passed both bodies of the Indiana ...

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday tapped a Cook County official to run the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and ...

LAKE COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- A semi hauling pipes crashed in the north suburbs on Friday, causing major traffic delays in the area. The crash happened on the northbound IL-Route 53 exit ramp to ...

Authorities said Nicholas Novak fired a shotgun at police at the end of a chase from Plano to Aurora, after already having ...

Captain David Meyer had been with the Fire Department since 1996, serving mostly in busy fire houses on the West Side "doing ...

The suburban Chicago man who admitted to a 2022 mass shooting at an Independence Day parade that left seven people dead has ...

In the latest twist in the effort to bring Illinois into compliance with a 2023 ruling by the court, eight counties allege ...

On a list of the five American cities with the highest property taxes, the first four are all in Illinois, according to a new ...

It's an audacious effort by the city of Chicago to pay for hundreds of of megawatts of clean energy to offset power usage in the airports and every firehouse, police district, library and city-owned ...

One of several examples the U.S. Department of Justice gave of how federal officials have been obstructed by Illinois’ ...