The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

After rebounding in February from a weak January, adult-use cannabis sales got back on track in March. Sales of $131 million rose 15% from February, as compared to a year ago when growth fell from 41% to 20%.

Fully vaccinated teachers and school staff are guaranteed pandemic-related paid leave under a bill Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Tuesday.

The opening of Illinois’ trout season leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; plus there’s coho, brown trout and steelhead on southern Lake Michigan with largemouth bass and crappie bites building inland.

Thousands of consumers with subprime credit or no credit no longer have access to any form of regulated, reliable loans.

Brothers Luke and Joe Teri both bagged big tom turkeys during Illinois’ youth season and lead off Turkey of the Week this spring.

It can be frustrating to see violence increase in our city. But that doesn’t mean we give up. We must fight harder than ever. Illinois should outlaw ghost guns.

CHICAGO — In the three days before Lilia had to vacate her basement apartment last summer, she cried herself to sleep each night. Her husband, Cipriano, 70, was in a hospital bed recovering from an emergency amputation of his left foot due to gangrene complications. But their landlords of more…

‘There are very few people in Illinois history that have ever had such a big effect on major projects and issues,’ said Kirk Dillard, who chairs the Regional Transportation Authority.

Since taking office, Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been gradually and quietly transforming the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, which is responsible for deciding whether to release some of the state’s most violent criminals from prison early, to fit his “weak on crime” agenda. That is, until now. Senate Democrats who covered…

Eighteen states all over the physical and political map, including California, Arizona, Virginia, Michigan, Montana, Illinois, Oregon, Nevada, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, now permit the recreational use of cannabis, opting to regulate and collect taxes from adult use of the substance rather than continue to treat it as…

Nearly 1,700 bobcats have been killed since 2016, when hunting the animals was made legal. Yet the small, shy animals are not a danger to humans, and they help keep down the numbers of pests like mice, voles and rats.