Indiana's Senate passed a bill, which already cleared the Indiana House, that would begin the process of absorbing Illinois counties that wish to break away from Cook County and Chicago.

Experts also warn the boarding issue will worsen as the number of people 65 and older in the U.S. with dementia grows in the coming decades. Hospital bed capacity in the U.S. may not keep up. Between ...

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 measles outbreak in Knox County, Ohio, grew to 14 cases this week, with the state’s overall count in double digits across four counties. The U.S. has more than double the number of measles ...

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

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

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Commissioners in a rural New Mexico county say pets are being snatched from front ... more captive ...

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

Three days after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids swept through Chicago Northwest Side’s Hermosa neighborhood, the 25th Police District Council member Angelica Green didn’t mince words.

Voters rejected a request to pay more sales tax in Kane County, to fund public-safety related expenses. However, they approved a plan for the Kaneland Unit School District 302 to borrow $140.3 ...

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