Even leaders of the two groups pushing for the split from Illinois insist they don’t want to become part of Indiana, at least ...

A Will County judge dismissed a lawsuit by 10 Will County Board Republicans against County Executive Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant ...

Lake County's population had been declining for decades ... "Many of those moving into Lake County come from the Chicago area in search of more affordable housing and lower taxes," Pollak said.

A measles outbreak in Knox County, Ohio, grew to 14 cases this week, with the state's overall count in double digits across ...

Illinois could borrow from other states’ playbooks and give voters more of a chance to get binding referendums on the ballot.

U.S. measles cases topped 700 Friday, and two children and an adult have died. Texas and five other states have active ...

The highest concentrations of undocumented immigrants in Midwest states are in cities with "sanctuary" policies.

The murder trial of a former Illinois sheriff's deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey, an unarmed black woman, in her ...

Between 2000 and 2022, the Latino population in Philadelphia grew from 130,000 ... Philadelphia is also behind Cook County, Illinois, where Chicago sits, which added 40,000 residents, as well as ...

In Chicago, they would call the police, but in unincorporated Cook County they would call the ... suspects being released on monitoring. “That population includes offenders charged with murder ...