As the clock ticks down to the consolidated primary election on Feb. 25, Gina Meeks and Carrie Crosby face off to represent ...

A man from Rockford is accused of shooting and killing a 22-year-old man last month, police say. Sincer Burns, 20, faces two ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is set to unveil his 2026 budget proposal at the annual State of the State budget address on ...

Just before 10 p.m. July 23, 2023, Rockford police responded to the 3800 block of Broadway for reports of a man hit by a car.

A federal judge in Rockford is asking the U.S. Sentencing Commission for harsher penalties for criminals who are in possession of “switch” devices that convert semi-automatic handguns into ...

BLOOMINGTON — John Kim, a Bloomington-based attorney, has been reappointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to serve as chair of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism ...

“The Department of Education funds important programs like special education. We have in the state of Illinois many, many parents and their children who need special education and that funding ...

A federal judge in Rockford is calling for stiffer penalties ... Johnston — who with former Illinois State Police Col. Mike Snyders sent a letter to the commission Monday — wrote that the ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to implement tariffs on key United States trading partners could affect more than $100 billion worth of goods imported to Illinois from Canada, Mexico and China.

It’s a tariff war that has Illinois lawmakers — and farmers — feeling uneasy about the economy. Why it matters: Agriculture is Illinois’ No. 1 economic driver, so a trade war wouldn’t ...

There are some other exclusions. Illinois has 44,784 federal civilian employees as of December 2024, according to data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Illinois’ District 7 ...

Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Hey, what's new? Us? Oh, not much . . . except IJ is headed to the U ...