Two years ago, Chicago voters dumped their unpopular incumbent mayor, Lori Lightfoot, a standard-issue Democratic progressive ...

Lawsuit from Republican US Rep. Mike Bost comes as the GOP nationwide has tried to stop allowing mail-in votes from being ...

President Trump, now convicted of felonies himself, pardoned the former Illinois governor on Feb. 10, 2025 — almost five ...

Nearly five years since the police murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd sparked fundamental changes in the way numerous U.S. police departments operated, the Justice Department has reversed ...

Comments made Sunday by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have led the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation into ...

As he faces a civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for the city's hiring practices, Chicago Mayor ...

The Illinois House passed a bill Saturday to raise the minimum detainment age for minors from 10 to 13 years old.

A man is facing charges after he allegedly attacked a flight attendant onboard a plane leaving Bradley International Airport ...