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Testimony in the case came from six Illinois Department of Corrections employees who admitted they lied to investigators. None has faced punishment, and they all continue to get regular pay increases.

CHICAGO — A pending federal lawsuit, brought by a downstate Republican congressman and two GOP officials, could invalidate potentially tens of thousands of mailed general election ballots that are cast by Illinois voters, including military members serving overseas, and postmarked on or before this coming Election Day but received by…

Residents have overwhelmingly agreed on one thing over the years: Illinois sucks. The new sentiment shows something different.

The suit accuses now-former Illinois State Toll Highway Authority chairman Will Evans and the agency’s general counsel of meddling in procurement and hiring.

This season’s final rankings of Illinois high school football teams in each class, according to an Associated Press panel of sportswriters.

U.S. District Senior Judge Thomas Hogan also put Christopher and Tina Logsdon on probation for three years — noting that it would last until after the next presidential election.

The body of 69-year-old Frances Walker was found dismembered in a freezer after police were called out to blood curdling screams coming from the property in Chicago, Illinois

The incumbent and his Republican opponent on the November ballot are on opposite ends of, among other things, the fight over a major criminal justice reform signed into law last year.