DuPage County Board Chairman Deborah Conroy said Democratic women also now make up an overwhelming majority of state representatives and senators representing DuPage in Springfield

Morton Arboretum's research is part of a hypothesis that the excess amount of nitrogen and carbon contained in billions of dying cicadas creates a nutrient pulse, providing super-charged fertilizer to forest ecosystems.

Homeowners are often targeted by scammers in security system services and home maintenance. Unethical companies may falsely claim their alarm provider is out of business or offer fake upgrades.

A Sangamon County judge on Wednesday blocked the Illinois State Board of Elections from enforcing a new law that would have prevented certain General Assembly candidates who didn’t run in the March primary from getting on the November ballot.

Dozens more former youth inmates filed lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages for sexual abuse they allegedly endured at Illinois detention centers dating back to the late 1990s.

The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a state law restricting where previously convicted child sex offenders can live is constitutional, although it left open the possibility that it was improperly applied to one Kane County individual.