Opinion: DeKalb County has a variety of events, from modern ones such as DeKalb Pride Fest to classic ones such as Kirkland 4th of July Festival, promising a summer to remember, writes Alexis Aviles of the DeKalb County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

This isn’t the first time lawmakers have tasked a state agency with an important function only to find it apparently unmanageable.

The fight for Speaker of the U.S. House has been an ongoing political headline for months. The last time there was this much turmoil over the Speakership was in 1856, and an Illinois man was involved.

A coalition of community-based organizations – Boys & Girls Clubs, YMCAs, etc. – rallied at the Statehouse Tuesday to ask lawmakers to appropriate $50 million for afterschool and summer programs.

“No pain. No gain." I’ve mumbled that little mantra more than once ...

Pritzker’s fiscal 2025 capital proposal includes spending up to $1 billion over up to five years to replace Logan and Stateville in Crest Hill.

State Sen. Rachel Ventura, D-Joliet, filed a plan to let municipal and county governments impose fees – from 50 cents to $8 – on each loaded semitrailer leaving an intermodal facility.

On Thursday, Gov. JB Pritzker announced $827 million in state incentives he said secured Rivian’s decision to build a midsize SUV in Illinois instead of Georgia.

The explosion of the airship Hindenburg is one of the most famous aviation disasters in American history and signaled the end of the zeppelin era of flight. An Illinois radio reporter provided the only news broadcast of the moment.