Gov. JB Pritzker signed his seventh annual budget, balanced as promised with spending cuts, taxes and one-time revenue boosts ...

“Our identity has been frozen in time, and it’s going to stay frozen in time as long as we’re portrayed as mascots and things of the past,” said Matt Beaudet, a citizen of the Montauk Tribe of Indians ...

To Jose Abel Garcia, a Guatemalan immigrant in the Los Angeles area, President Donald Trump’s latest promise to expand ...

The budget sent to Pritzker included a 5% pay raise for state lawmakers, to $98,304. State law sets the pay for legislators ...

The $55.1 billion state spending plan signed into law Monday by Pritzker marked one of the toughest budget seasons of his ...

Ald. Michael Rodriguez scraps vote on city of Chicago ordinance that would have raised the pay of drivers who use the ...

If you want to explore attractions in Illinois that are not in the Windy City, we've got some spectacular gems for you. You ...

A fiscal cliff and potential transit service reductions loom for Chicago and the suburbs as Illinois lawmakers determine what ...

The sentence, which also includes three years’ probation after his prison term and a $2.5 million fine, follows a jury’s ...

In the Springfield metro area, about 9,600 Black people and 13,390 white people were living in poverty in 2023, according to the five-year ACS data. In the city of Springfield, about 9,000 Blacks ...

More than 2,100 "No Kings" rallies took place on Saturday across the country. See pictures from some of the protests in Illinois.