A recent poll reveals strong public support for initiatives such as funding free meals in public schools and summer job grants for youth, while also highlighting concerns about the cost of living and mixed perceptions of Illinois' direction.
Holy Week is a reflective time for people of many faiths, and Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday are marked by tens of millions around the world. However, Holy Week in 1865 was a defining period in American history.
The 102nd Illinois House District is one of a handful of southeastern and southern Illinois Republican primaries that might slow or intensify the Republican Party’s rightward lunge.
She was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize, and her gentle spirit provided a powerful voice in modern American literature.
This grocery tax elimination proposal is a pretty darned solid play by Gov. Pritzker on multiple political and legislative levels.
New bipartisan measures aimed at ensuring the preservation of family farms in the event of a family member’s death were announced Wednesday after years of attempting to reform the Illinois Estate and Generation Transfer Tax Act.
Generally, when running a government body, it’s not great when a decision to potentially spend more than $4 billion fits the description “disappointing and inexplicable,” but here we are.
Rich Miller: It’s becoming more clear, despite his initial promises, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s aim has been to pull back from the task of accepting and caring for the continuing influx of asylum-seekers and return to his progressive agenda.
For years, enrollment in Illinois’ public schools has been on the decline, but the number of English Learners (ELs) – students in PreK through 12th grade who require additional programming to develop academic English enabling their full participation in school – is on the rise.