The University of Illinois is sorting through a record number of first-year applications. Admissions officials said people ...

An estimated $3 million is what it would take to put Sangamon County’s unhoused population in homes. That’s according to Josh ...

One of the speakers was Salem Addison King, a University of Illinois-Springfield student who aims to support and to organize ...

Women’s March organizers have rebranded their annual January event as “The People’s March,” which includes a coalition of dozens of organizations focused on reproductive rights, racial justice, ...

HISTORY LESSON: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will headline this morning’s MLK Interfaith Breakfast, also known as the ...

Finding new state money for any programs will be a tough sell in Springfield this year, with the state facing a $3.2 billion ...

The Bloomington City Council approved an annexation agreement and special use for a 58-townhome development to the southeast ...

The fight over a hemp bill that never got called overshadowed legislation that was passed during the Illinois General Assembly’s lame duck session.

Before their lame-duck session ends Tuesday, Illinois lawmakers may consider issues ranging from clean energy and criminal justice to public health and child welfare.

They slept in police stations and hospitals. New York City’s mayor proposed housing migrants on a barge. Democratic leaders even publicly blamed President Joe Biden for not doing enough.

CHICAGO — There are close to 300 new Illinois or Chicago-area laws going into effect with the arrival of the new year, and they run the gamut from upping minimum wage and increasing pay ...