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

If the United States adopts an openly expansionist foreign policy it would mark a sharp shift in the country's policy since the end of World War II. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker attends the ...

More than 30 Illinois counties are looking to leave the state and join another state. Here's what you need to know.

CHICAGO (WGN) — Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich held a press ... a pardon typically removes the bar to certain civil rights, including voting, serving on a jury, running for public ...

Albert Cashier, an Irish immigrant who came to America sometime before the Civil War, watched the 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment march off to join Ulysses S. Grant and what would soon be called ...

State prevents assisting US civil immigration enforcement Trump ... to assist with arresting violent criminals," Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said in a statement.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has officially pardoned former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich ... a pardon typically removes the bar to certain civil rights, including voting, serving on a jury ...

Indiana legislators would like to redraw the Indiana-Illinois border to absorb parts ... which was during the pre-Civil War era and allowed Missouri to become a slave state and Maine a free ...

Among the challenged provisions are state laws that prohibit Illinois law enforcement officials from engaging with federal officials on enforcement of civil ... a Republican governor, has always ...

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