Officials from Chicago and Illinois are sounding the alarm as the U.S. Department of Education plans to lay off about half of ...

Illinois leaders took shots at the Trump administration after it announced the firings of over 1,3000 employees at the ...

At least 50 staffers were fired in Chicago or pushed out, including the entire Office for Civil Rights. The layoffs are part ...

Washington is the latest Peoria-area municipality to consider its own 1% grocery tax to cover the shortfall from elimination of it statewide.

Precisely one month from the history-making moment former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted of corruption, ...

Two Chicago men who were wrongfully convicted of a 2003 murder were awarded a massive settlement from the city. John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell both spent 16 years behind bars for the murder. Their l ...

Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned today, accusing the paper's publisher of killing her piece on owner Jeff Bezos' overhaul of its opinion pages.

Attorneys said the DOJ failed to state any federal violations and that Illinois had a constitutional right to enforce its own immigration laws.