According to the Centers for Disease Control, 86.8% of nursing home residents in Illinois have been vaccinated but only 65.7% of the people who care for them have received shots.

The Chicago Bears’ impending move to Arlington Heights appears to have few immediate negative impacts, and a lot of opportunities to ponder.

On Tuesday, Illinois had the fifth-lowest 7-day rolling average in the United States of new reported COVID-19 cases, with 22 per 100,000 residents, far surpassing it's neighboring states.

Editorial: Democracy is hanging on by a thread. Our nation needs to rebuild a consensus that elections must be fair — putting the means before the ends.

If Democrats really wanted tougher ethics rules, they’d already have passed them. What they want in Springfield, they get.

A new Treasury Department report finds that the United States is losing $163 billion per year because of tax evasion by the top 1% of earners.

The findings of a study released this month should give all of us in northern Illinois reason for concern about the future of our water supply.

At least 656,000 deaths have been attributed to COVID-19 in the United States in 2020 and 2021, and we are averaging more than 1,500 deaths every day. At this rate, we will pass the death toll of the flu pandemic by Sept. 22.

All things considered, the energy legislation signed this week represents a milestone in Illinois' effort to deal with the existential threat posed by climate change. It doesn’t have to be perfect. It just needs to work.