The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

Quincy, the county seat of Adams County in downstate Illinois, is a quiet town. Here residents vote conservative, prize neighborliness and don’t raise voices. Controversy isn’t courted.

In a virtual event, immigration groups in Illinois said they will push state elected leaders to expand economic and health care benefits for immigrants.

UIC joins Belmont University and Murray State as newcomers to the conference for the 2022/23 academic year and will be the fourth Illinois school in the conference.

2022 College Football Schedules By Teams. The schedules and scores for all 131 schools.

Illinois played without Cockburn and Curbelo.

While deaths "still are quite high" in Chicago at a rate of about 19 per day, other numbers suggest relief could be on the way, Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said.

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin put his first round of cash to use with a television ad portraying himself as a law-and-order candidate who "shut down the riots" as mayor amid 2020 civil unrest in Aurora, claiming he "called in the guard" to quell looting — although in reality, that power…

A recent federal court order allowed a new law in Illinois to move forward, which calls for local entities to end existing contracts that previously allowed local jails to house people facing deportations.

A wind chill advisory is in effect from 8 p.m. Tuesday to noon Wednesday in northern Illinois.

CHICAGO — Nearly 10,000 women traveled from out of state to have an abortion in Illinois in 2020, a roughly 29% increase compared with the previous year, according to the most recent Illinois Department of Public Health data available.

The state’s $45 billion in capital projects through the Rebuild Illinois initiative in 2019 included $4 billion in pork-barrel projects that were slipped in without any public input, the BGA reported.