The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

Organizers of the downstate Lincoln Day Dinner say DeSantis will “speak on his successful Florida Blueprint,” as Republicans “fight the radical Progressive Left’s Marxist agenda here in Illinois.” But Gov. J.B. Pritzker said, “DeSantis’ views are not what we call freedom in Illinois.”

The trooper had pulled off to the side of the interstate around 3 a.m. to help a woman and a man stranded in their vehicle, according to the state police.

Gun shop owner Robert Bevis has asked the Supreme Court to overturn lower court rulings upholding the ban.

Releasing the terminally ill and seriously disabled, under a 2022 law, would help ease the burden on the state’s disastrous prison health care system. The state needs to provide funding so attorneys can transition prisoners back home, writes Jennifer Soble of the Illinois Prison Project.

New federal subsidies are meant to encourage the use of carbon capture and sequestration. Lawmakers must put safeguards in place for using the technology here in Illinois.

Our state’s leaders are out of touch with the majority of voters. They have moved away from abortion being “safe, legal and rare” to embracing an agenda that suppresses real choice, state Rep. Bill Hauter writes.

John Wayne Gacy was sentenced to death for the murder of 33 young men who he tortured, raped and killed in the 1970s and told his lawyers that to him his victims were "not human beings"

“This pipeline is too dangerous,” says a homeowner who could lose part of her land. “Solar and wind projects are so much safer. Why aren’t we investing all that money into that?”

The bill increasing pension benefits for Chicago firefighters hired after Jan. 1, 2011, is co-sponsored by state Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas, whom Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson has picked to serve as his deputy chief of staff