SPRINGFIELD — A Republican lawmaker who introduced a bill to outlaw abortion in Illinois has resigned from his GOP leadership position in the Illinois Senate after conversations with top Republicans.

Gov. JB Pritzker is proposing a $56 billion budget for fiscal year 2027 with minimal new spending. Outside of key areas like pensions, education and health care costs, discretionary spending under ...

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker will propose a statewide zoning law in his State of the State address on Wednesday, ...

Martinez, who attorneys said has a valid concealed carry license, had a gun stored in a bright pink holster, snapped shut at ...

Don Tracy, Jeannie Evans and Casey Chlebek pitched themselves as best positioned to flip a Senate seat Democrats have held ...

A federal judge has upheld a first-of-its-kind Illinois law that protects consumers and retailers from paying so-called ...

The Trump administration has again rejected Illinois’ request for a major disaster declaration covering severe storms that took place in northern Illinois in August 2025.

His GOP opponents have also expressed doubts that he can beat Pritzker on the second try. Dabrowski told the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board last month he is a better candidate than Bailey because he ...

A federal judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction in the case concerning the Trump administration’s freeze on $10 billion in child care and family planning funding to five blue states, ...

Gov. JB Pritzker is backing one of his longtime Statehouse allies, Rep. Margaret Croke, to be Illinois’ next comptroller.

Statewide data, however, suggest that most people don’t follow through. According to the Paper Prisons Initiative, a legal research group, an estimated 2.2 million people in Illinois were eligible for ...