SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The fierce derecho that tore through Springfield late last week snapped massive utility poles and trees,...
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week signed a law providing full disability benefits to Chicago police officers and firefighters struck by...
DIVERNON, Ill. (AP) – Winds stirred up a wall of dust from farm fields that engulfed a stretch of busy...
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...