Increased costs – from higher Medicaid, K-12 education and pension costs – could negate potential positives from adding population, experts say.

Vote for the current Illinois flag not because it is so great, but because anything else wastes our tax dollars.

It’s now up to the Illinois Supreme Court to decide if a recently enacted state law limiting where people can file constitutional challenges against the state to Sangamon and Cook counties, not any of the other 100 counties.

Maryland won at home Sunday against Nebraska, 69-66. Ja’Kobi Gillespie led the way with 22 points for the Terps. The Fighting Illini lost a hard-fought game in East Lansing Sunday to the Michigan State Spartans, 80-78. Kasparas Jakucionis is Illinois’ leading scorer averaging 15.9 points per game.

On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that removes some protections for the LGBTQ community. A leader of an Illinois LGBTQ advocacy organization is advising people how to respond.

The United Automobile Workers union has been pressing the automaker, which owns Chrysler and Jeep, to revive the plant in Belvidere, Ill.

A suburban man was charged in connection with a hit-and-run crash last summer that critically injured a pedestrian in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood.

Ex-House speaker Michael Madigan, formerly the most powerful man in Illinois politics, “conspired to enhance and preserve (his) power and line his pockets” for years, prosecutors said at the outset of marathon closing arguments in Madigan’s corruption trial.

Indiana legislators would like to redraw the Indiana-Illinois border to absorb parts of Illinois, but the proposed action would face roadblocks on the Illinois side, which would prevent a border

The best independent coffee shop in Illinois is found in Springfield, according to a new report. What's your favorite coffee shop in Springfield?

Shawn Fain admits that the UAW does not agree with Trump on much of his domestic agenda but the union can find common ground with the new President