Article Summary Police departments will be required to request detailed background history from past employers, who will be mandated to ...

Article Summary U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries made a stop in Springfield one day before keynoting a breakfast with ...

Article Summary Illinois has long had some of the most rigorous proficiency standards in the nation for student performance. The ...

Article Summary No Republican candidates have publicly announced they’re running for three statewide offices and just two have announced plans ...

Forty Illinois local news entities operating 120 outlets are receiving $4 million in state tax credits under a new law ...

Article Summary A judge has denied former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s motion to remain free as the legal appeal ...

Article Summary Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made her second visit to Illinois Friday to call on the state to ...

The measures signed Friday affect Chicago public employee pensions, carbon sequestration near underground drinking water, AI regulation and more. This summary was written by the reporters and editors ...

Article Summary Texas Democrats fled to Illinois Sunday night in an effort to block a vote to bolster the state’s ...

With electric prices going up, advocates tried — and failed — to reform the energy sector Sweeping legislation would have incentivized energy storage, allowed new nuclear development ...

Article Summary Jay Doherty, a longtime lobbyist and consultant for electric utility Commonwealth Edison, has been sentenced to a year ...

Small clinics and hospitals are drowning in denied and delayed claims from Illinois Medicaid managed care organizations. To cope, some ...