Despite being born with malformed limbs and later giving birth to four children, Francisca avoided going to the doctor as ...

Preckwinkle will be running on successes, including expanding health care for county residents, advocating for the pretrial ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson has made weekly rounds with Chicago’s Black media outlets and embarked on a “Faith in Government” tour this year, arenas where he’s evidently felt more comfortable antagonizing ...

Gov. JB Pritzker is pushing a measure to take phones out of classrooms, but some argue that they serve a purpose.

Top Democrats, including Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom, make early moves as speculation heats ...

It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about over the past week: ...

A new program entitled the Illinois Stability Investment for Family Housing (SIFH) will provide cash support for families in ...

Illinois is seeing a drop in overdose deaths, despite slight increases in west-central Illinois counties. The administration of Gov. JB Pritzker said that, in 2023, Illinois saw the first decline in ...

A look at Florida and Illinois shows how legislatures in the country's often polarized state politics are responding to the Trump administration. States hold a lot of power over what gets done.

A federal fund has been cut that provided Illinois schools and childcare centers with healthy foods from local farms and suppliers.

The new data comes as the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) unveiled an expanded Overdose Data Dashboard that shares more data and makes the tool easier to use for both researchers and the ...