Scott Reeder writes about an incident where a giant inflatable rat on a picket line was attacked with a knife.

Opinion: Caterpillar has been an important company in Illinois. It has been especially vital to my hometown of Peoria, where its world headquarters were located for nearly nine decades.

Chris Dargis is a businessman, retired Navy officer, husband and father of three children. He is running to represent the 8th Congressional District, which includes portions of Cook, DuPage, McHenry and Kane counties.

Eye On Illinois: Illinoisans should be comfortable joining with officials to celebrate the influx and hopefully marking a course reversal for a longstanding struggle with way painkillers have ravaged families and communities.

Eye On Illinois: Final primary totals arrive just before general election process begins.

Some people buy T-shirts from the vacation spots to which they travel. My husband and I liked to buy art pieces from local artists. That's helped to spark happy memories from our years of travel adventures.

During a July trip to Savannah, Georgia, the Illinois Farm Bureau Board of Directors toured shipping terminals in the third busiest port in the country to learn more about major barriers affecting the transportation sector.

Illinois municipal governments collected $83 million on recreational marijuana sales taxes in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021, and a whopping $146 million in the one ending June 30, 2022.

Scott Reeder: If they far-right candidates win, Democrats like JB Pritzker and Nancy Pelosi, who donated to their campaigns, deserve the blame.