The Illinois Department of Public Health has declared the state's measles outbreak officially over. Eight measles cases, all ...

No new cases have been diagnosed in the state since May 22nd, and two full incubation periods of 42 days has elapsed since ...

New drop box features a surveillance camera to record who drops off ballots, an electronic screen to confirm successful ...

Chicago’s public defenders are among the best-resourced in Illinois, but even there, massive case loads have attorneys and investigators stretched paper-thin. The Cook County Jail has swelled under ...

A federal judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit alleging Cook County strips homeowners of equity when auctioning ...

Median personal income down from 2021 Illinois’ median personal income for 2023 was $115,000, according to data released by ...

A federal judge granted class status to a suit filed in 2022 by former homeowners alleging the county’s tax sales violate the U.S. Constitution.

Illinois and Cook County's minimum wage will soon go up once again. Beginning in 2025, the state and county's minimum wage will officially increase to $15 an hour for non-tipped employees.

A committee charged with exploring the possibility of redrawing Indiana-Illinois border went into effect July 1 in the ...

Miller raised her family in the south suburbs and grew up in Chicago with her family’s generational story rooted in Black ...

A federal judge ordered an in-person hearing for Aug. 12 on a motion by the state to dismiss the case. A separate case the ...

After she failed to pay the taxes for another nine months, Cook County officials auctioned off her tax debt to a private investor, as required under Illinois law.