Five Mississippi men have been sentenced in federal court for illegally hunting white-tailed deer across multiple southern ...

Targeting trophy deer under the cover of night, across multiple counties, and transporting them across state lines reflects a ...

A black bear has been spotted in Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties. Here's how to keep yourself safe from bear encounters.

An hour and a half south of Chicago, Bray Grove Farm in Grundy County stands out as different from the rest; it is 100% ...

That group includes Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, who penned a letter to the state’s attorney of Jersey County on the issue in 2023. “The Illinois Constitution of 1970 does not grant ...

In the last five years, voters in 33 Illinois counties have been asked if they want to consider separating from Chicago's Cook County to form a new state. Each time, a majority said yes.

The group is now called Illinois Separation Referendum and has gathered interest from a total of 68 of the state’s 102 counties, Newlin said. The ballot measures that have passed have done so ...

Before Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker’s successful 2018 campaign, the number of Illinois counties voting Democratic got smaller and smaller during a 20-year period.

In Illinois, 33 counties have voted to leave the state. Getting them into Indiana is incredibly unlikely.

Those counties, now 33 in total, have voted to leave the state of Illinois. The language in the referenda involved the counties splitting off to create a new, 51st state—not joining Indiana.