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Thursday marked the second day of closing arguments in the speaker’s landmark racketeering and bribery trial, as prosecutors ...

Prosecutors say the “Make Mike Madigan Money Plan” helped the former Illinois House speaker’s law firm gain profits.

Gov. JB Pritzker signs bill ending sub-minimum wage for disabled workers in Illinois by 2030, making it the 19th state to do ...

As Democrats across deep-blue Illinois on Monday responded to President Donald Trump’s inaugural address with a call “to ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker delivered their opening salvos Monday against Republican President Donald Trump ...

The Trump administration has frequently called Chicago "ground zero" for mass deportations, with potential enforcement taking ...

In the final minutes of his term, Biden pardoned Kinzinger and other members of the Select Committee on the January 6th ...

While some Illinois Democrats skipped the Inauguration of President Donald Trump, the head of the state’s Republican Party is ...

Illinois leaders on Monday said they were bracing for the effects of a still unspecified immigration policy from the ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker condemned President Trump’s agenda and character Monday just before Trump took the ...

While Illinois is mostly thought of as a blue state these days, close to 2.5 million people in the state voted for Donald ...