Some Indiana lawmakers have taken steps to absorb the Illinois counties that have voted to leave the state. Last election, seven Illinois counties joined more than 20 others to greenlight a proposal ...

Central Illinois legislators are restarting an effort to protect the Mahomet Aquifer. Last year, Governor J.B. Pritzker ...

Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative (CBHTI) are teaming up to make ...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, rejected a bill proposed by Indiana Republicans that would explore the possibility of Illinois counties seceding and joining Indiana, calling it “a stunt” ...

A bill soon heading to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk would direct foster care officials to prioritize placing children with ...

Melissa Calusinski, an Illinois daycare worker convicted of killing a 16-month-old in 2009 when she was 22 years old, insists ...

Brink’s vote to parole these convicted murderers and release them back into society completely disregarded the court’s ...

Many in the hemp industry said not everyone in the hemp space uses deceitful and dangerous practices, and that Gov. J.B.

As Donald Trump prepares to reclaim the White House, promising mass deportations of illegal immigrants, state lawmakers are ...

After 175 years, a state park in Northern Illinois may get returned to an indigenous population. A bill on Governor J.B.

State and federal legislators are preparing for the Trump administration’s plans to make Chicago “ground zero” for mass deportations.

Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston wants the nearly three-dozen Illinois counties that have voted to secede to consider redder pastures. Among those, two counties that border Vermilion County, Iroquois ...