The First Amendment forbids widespread loyalty purges.

The Illinois Department of Human Services divisions overseeing mental health and substance abuse would be consolidated under ...

Schools, colleges and states that require students to be immunized against COVID-19 may be at risk of losing federal money under a White House order signed by President Donald Trump.

The White House has insisted that its new tariffs would equalize the ability of the U.S. and foreign manufacturers to compete. The European Union, for example, has an average VAT of 21.8 percent, ...

The Department of Central Management Services has received notice from Governor JB Pritzker that all person or entities covered by the Illinois Flag Display Act are to fly the flags at half-staff in ...

The verdict capped an unpredictable four-month trial that gave jurors an up-front and uncensored look at the practice of behind-the-scenes politics in Chicago and Illinois in the previous decade.

Trump is trying to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Most school funding is local, as are policy decisions. But his ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has decided to delay work on a $1.2 billion project meant to prevent invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes out of concerns that the Trump administration won't pay the f ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 21, 2024. Pritzker was considered ...

A jury has delivered a split verdict against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, finding him guilty on 11 of 23 ...

Emily Curiel/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(TOPEKA, Kan.) -- Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed ...