CELEBRITY Help My House is Haunted has teamed up with a noughties TV icon. On the Discovery Plus show, three experts attempt to uncover paranormal activity using their senses combined with cutting ...

SPRINGFIELD — About two-thirds of the members of the Illinois House of Representatives are Democrats, a level of dominance that allows the party to control all levers of power in the chamber.

Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch wants to vet the state’s underfunded pensions through a budgetary lens as the legislature looks to close a potentially $3 billion deficit for the year ahead.

Michelle Pemberton/IndyStar USA TODAY NETWORK A bill introduced in the Indiana legislature by its Republican House Speaker would create a commission to embrace 33 Illinois counties that have voted ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan stepped down from the witness stand Tuesday after days of testifying in his own defense in his corruption trial. It remained unclear ...

Several Illinois counties that have explored the idea of secession might be welcomed with open arms in Indiana. Legislators in Indiana's Republican-majority General Assembly have introduced a ...

CHICAGO — To enact his progressive agenda, Mayor Brandon Johnson is looking to Springfield for an assist, but powerful Speaker of the Illinois House Emanuel “Chris” Welch warns that money is ...

WINNETKA, Ill. (WGN) — A famous house featured in the iconic holiday film “Home Alone” sold this week for nearly $300,000 over its asking price. Built in 1921, and fully renovated and ...

A listing for a former school that is being offered up as a potential multifamily home has gone viral thanks to a disturbing ...

Click here for more stories from this year's legislative session. Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston wants the nearly three-dozen Illinois counties that have voted to secede to consider redder ...

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