Illinois lawmakers have passed a $55.2 billion budget for the new fiscal year, including increased taxes on tobacco products and sports betting.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A bill creating an interdisciplinary commission to study the interplay between animals, the environment ...

If clean slate laws had existed in the past, Susan B. Anthony, César Chávez, and Martin Luther King Jr. might have had their ...

Illinois lawmakers have two days left to solve pressing statewide issues, including CTA issues, new Bears stadium, and new ...

Tyler Bohannon, the legislative liaison for the Illinois Department of Agriculture, said that his department opposes the bill ...

Most violence interrupters don’t make enough to meet their household needs. The Home for Good bill aims to fix that.

Nursing unions are calling for stricter enforcement of regulations on nursing homes in Illinois. A state law in effect since January fines nursing homes that don’t meet adequate staffing levels.

Some state lawmakers say public safety issues can be attributed to a lack of support for police and bills which they say make their jobs more difficult. Republican state Rep. Dennis Tipsword from ...

GRANITE CITY — A long-term plan to make improvements to an 8.5-mile corridor along Illinois 3 from Interstate 270 to the ...

to the state’s public health systems, and agricultural and environmental issues that often go ignored by other media outlets. Illinois public media stations also: Deliver geotargeted emergency ...