DIVERNON, Ill. (AP) – Winds stirred up a wall of dust from farm fields that engulfed a stretch of busy...
Articles by John O'Connor
DIVERNON, Ill. (AP) – A windstorm in central Illinois kicked up dangerous clouds of blinding dust off farm fields Monday,...
DIXON, Ill. (AP) – Gertie Wadsworth was in the arms of her grandmother that bright day when sunshine dissolved distasteful...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois’ two-week-old ban on semiautomatic weapons outlaws “ubiquitous” firearms in “radical” defiance of the Constitution’s Second...
Surging COVID-19 cases in Chicago has prompted Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to ban indoor dining and bar services and limit...
Illinois’ new governor delivered on a top campaign promise by signing legislation making the state the 11th to approve marijuana...
Proposed plans for the legalization of recreational marijuana use in Illinois have shifted from “when” to “how.” Democratic Gov.-elect J.B....
People who are harmed or injured in incidents that are the state government’s fault will be eligible for damage awards...
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration cannot adequately account for more than $7 billion paid to Medicaid insurance providers in 2016,...
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has an answer to the state Capitol budget impasse: adopt five “structural reforms” that make it...