The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon and Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch announced agreement on a budget they said was balanced “without gimmicks.” Six hours later, Democrats filed the legislation, which must still pass both chambers before the governor can sign it.

Our state ranks 49th out of 50 states for funding and support of the estimated 300,000 Illinoisans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. That has to change, state lawmakers write.

CHICAGO — Hundreds more Catholic clerics abused children in Illinois than were previously reported by church leaders, according to a scathing 700-page report released Tuesday by the Illinois Attorney General’s office following a roughly four-year investigation.

A bill requiring public school districts in Illinois to establish full-day kindergarten within the next four years passed the state legislature Friday and awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s approval.

At the start of a five-year investigation by the attorney general, Cardinal Blase Cupich told seminarians the Archdiocese of Chicago had “posted all of the names” of predatory clergy. As the investigation neared its end, Cupich kept adding names.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is set to discuss his office’s more than four-year investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state going back decades

Zachary Porter, 20, from Illinois, was walking on tidal mud flats with his friends in an Alaska estuary when he suddenly became stuck as the tide came in, according to police

While it went a little under the radar last week, the commitment of Joliet West’s Justus McNair to Valparaiso was significant.

Helping to fight substance abuse in some states can be as easy as purchasing legal marijuana.