Lawmakers have filed more than 11,400 bills and resolutions since the current General Assembly started in January 2025.

As the Bears stadium bill advances in the Illinois House, state Rep. Kam Buckner faces pushback from the governor's office and Senate Democrats over surprise changes to the deal.

Anti-violence might be my deepest held personal position. But that comes from understanding how much we actually have normalized the scourge.

Column: Where’s your go-to for news? I wondered, “Are we going to survive as a species, the way things are going? They moved up the Doomsday Clock," writes Rick Holinger.

Column: What's Happening in Batavia? A citywide garage sale fundraiser, veterans resource fair and more are coming up this week and in May, writes Lori Botterman.

Today, the NFL draft is one of the biggest sports stories on the calendar, with ESPN and other outlets covering everything in overhyped detail. The first-ever NFL draft in 1936 was a different story.

The people’s business isn’t always done in the predawn hours of Memorial Day weekend or crammed into a January lame duck session.

The Driving Change legislation would move Illinois toward a fairer, more affordable system that prioritizes what should matter most: a driver’s record behind the wheel.

IEPA estimates the remediations have an average cost of $150,000 per site and said its Underground Storage Tank Fund holds more than $80 million as of April 7. Ignoring inflation, five projects per year means it would take 106 years to burn through the entire fund.