The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

House Speaker Welch reflected on the visit, highlighting learning opportunities and cultural complexities of the Middle East

A top state election official says it would be up to Illinois’ judiciary, not the State Board of Elections, to ultimately decide whether Donald Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection disqualifies him as a candidate for president.

The 23-year-old Dane picked up five wins - including both oval races at Iowa and Illinois - and three further podiums, plus five pole positions from his second season in the championship previously known as Indy Lights. He only finished outside the top 10 once in 14 starts, after a…

Critics of cash bail as a condition of pretrial release say it is especially unfair to Black people and other people of color

An Illinois appeals court will hear oral arguments Tuesday that the panel should toss Jussie Smollett's convictions for staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself and then lying about it to Chicago police

For the first time since before the pandemic, metro Chicago posted jobless rates below 4% across three consecutive months.

The $40 billion project is modernizing our highways, bridges and other infrastructure. It’s also supporting the long-term workforce supply pipeline needed in the booming construction industry.

Based on grades from Pro Football Focus, here are the best and worst performers from the Packers’ Week 1 win over the Bears:

An explosion and fire at an Archer Daniels Midland facility in Illinois has injured eight employees and sent a tower of smoke into the air