When state Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch was sworn in for another term as speaker of the House this month, he called on his colleagues to “rise ...

While the Justice Department found no discriminatory practices in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, 36, Sangamon County ...

Amid multiple recent challenges to state gun control laws, the Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday concerning the constitutionality of concealed carry licenses and open carry bans.

Illinois promised answers after fatal officer-involved shootings and other deaths at the hands of law enforcement. But some ...

A bill soon heading to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk would direct foster care officials to prioritize placing children with ...

The Illinois Attorney General's Office alleges that a Bloomington family ran an organized retail crime enterprise through ...

After 175 years, a state park in Northern Illinois may get returned to an indigenous population. A bill on Governor J.B.

Many in the hemp industry said not everyone in the hemp space uses deceitful and dangerous practices, and that Gov. J.B.

State and federal legislators are preparing for the Trump administration’s plans to make Chicago “ground zero” for mass deportations.

The developments marked the end of the evidence phase of Madigan's trial, which has included more than 60 witnesses and ...

Thank God we live in Illinois because, we’re already Trump-proof,” Welch told the Sun-Times. “We did a lot of the hard work the first time…We took him at his word the first time when he said he would ...

Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston wants the nearly three-dozen Illinois counties that have voted to secede to consider redder pastures. Among those, two counties that border Vermilion County, Iroquois ...