Four police officers were hurt Friday during protests at the ICE facility in Broadview. Two Broadview officers and a Cook County Sheriff’s Police officer were transported to a local hospital for ...

Officials at the Northern Illinois Food Bank in Geneva are expressing relief that the government shutdown has ended and funding for the essential SNAP food assistance program is secured for the next ...

Rockford’s Finance and Personnel Committee has approved the city’s 2026 budget, maintaining property tax levels and lowering the general fund by $2 million from last year. Despite a state-mandated $5 ...

Looking to chart the course for growth of Illinois river communities, 15 mayors gathered Nov. 7 in Peoria for the inaugural conference of the Illinois River Cities and Towns Initiative at the Childers ...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D) will continue to be banned from receiving Holy Communion in his home diocese for his pro-choice stance. Citing church law, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Springfield ...

A Chicago woman is being held in Cook County Jail in connection with the death of a 2-month-old boy on the city’s Near West Side. Lauryn Shakespeare, 24, a resident of the 100 block of North Ashland ...

As Indigenous Peoples’ Day approaches, Brookfield Zoo Chicago officials reaffirmed their acknowledgment that the zoo sits on unceeded, traditional and ancestral homeland of Indigenous people.

Cook County Circuit Court Judge Kathaleen Lanahan was host for the ceremony, complete with honorariums and lunchtime treats. Since 1998, the Bridgeview Problem-Solving Courts have been part of the ...

CHICAGO — An automatic license plate reader company used by hundreds of police departments around Illinois broke state law by allowing federal border enforcement officers to access Illinois license ...

Entering Year Five of Rebuild Illinois, the Illinois Department of Transportation last week highlighted multiple projects in the DuPage County area that are underway or planned through 2025. Six major ...

PEORIA – Jury selection was completed Monday in the trial of ex-Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson, charged with killing Springfield resident Sonya Massey. Moved to Peoria County due to ...

A bronze statue of Northern Illinois University’s nationally-known Siberian Husky mascot now has a permanent home outside Huskie Stadium. Diesel, who patrolled NIU football sidelines for nine years, ...