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Illinois has outlawed automatic weapons amid a torrent of mass shootings including a 4th of July parade shooting that killed seven and injured 30

The site offers snapshots of COVID-19 transmission in communities around 75 wastewater treatment facilities in Illinois.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Tuesday night a comprehensive measure that supporters called one of the nation’s toughest bans on military style firearms, immediately prohibiting their sale and giving current owners until Jan. 1 to register gun serial numbers with Illinois State Police.

From Ryan Poles' commanding presence to their commitment to Justin Fields, here are our takeaways from Tuesday's Bears press conference.

The Shedd Aquarium, Art Institute, Field Museum and more are free on select days for Illinois residents.

Illinois lawmakers are working during the last day of their lame duck session on a measure that would secure access to reproductive health care

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“We have done this for Highland Park’s Kevin and Irina McCarthy, Jacquelyn Sundheim, Katherine Goldstein, Eduardo Uvaldo, Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza and Stephen Straus. For Benito Juarez High School’s Brandon Perez and Nathan Billegas, just 15 and 14.”

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Seeking to build on the successes of his four years in office, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker offered a second-term agenda Monday that called for a state constitutional right to abortion, making preschool available to every family and making public college free for children in working-class families.

The Illinois Senate has approved a ban on semiautomatic weapons