The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

It can be frustrating to see violence increase in our city. But that doesn’t mean we give up. We must fight harder than ever. Illinois should outlaw ghost guns.

CHICAGO — In the three days before Lilia had to vacate her basement apartment last summer, she cried herself to sleep each night. Her husband, Cipriano, 70, was in a hospital bed recovering from an emergency amputation of his left foot due to gangrene complications. But their landlords of more…

Sununu is the very rare Republican like Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois willing to call out the election-denying, conspiracy-mongering Trump.

The Illinois General Assembly has an opportunity to lessen the reliance on property taxes by returning the Local Government Distributive Fund to the promised 10%.

Troopers responded to an expressway shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 71st Street and found a person shot, Illinois state police said.

Without the ability to track the chain of custody, law enforcement will have a much harder time solving gun crimes. That’s unacceptable at a time when gun violence is plaguing so many Illinois communities.

Paul Vernon Hoeffer pleaded guilty to calling members of Congress and Illinois prosecutor with violent threats

The House Oversight Committee on Friday launched an investigation into Amazon.com Inc's (NASDAQ:AMZN) labor practices, CNBC reports. The House demanded information about a deadly warehouse collapse in Illinois in 2021 as a tornado hit the warehouse, killing six workers. The workers had alleged inadequate safety protocols for severe weather events. The Competition Commission…

Since a new provision of the Illinois SAFE-T Act took effect Jan. 1, dozens of people on home confinement in Cook County have been arrested while free of supervision, records show.