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Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, with the cancer cells having spread to the bone, his office said Sunday

A Will County jury found a former landlord guilty of the 2023 Plainfield Township hate crime murder of a 6-year-old Muslim child and the attempted murder of the child’s mother. A sentencing hearing is slated for May 2.

Advocates of the family of a Muslim child who was killed in 2023 in Plainfield Township say the convicted killer was radicalized by unfounded and dehumanizing claims about Palestinians in media coverage of the Gaza war.

A sensory playground in Plainfield has been dedicated to the memory of a Muslim child who was stabbed to death in 2023 in Plainfield Township.

When shortform video platform TikTok shut down service earlier this month, the move surprised some Illinois politicians who use the app to educate, reach constituents and follow trends.

A Lockport woman who partially blamed U.S. President Donald Trump for her role in the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot is among five people from Will County who’ve been pardoned for their crimes.

President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, and members of the House committee including former Rep. Adam Kinzinger that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration

President Joe Biden has used his farewell address to the nation to warn of an “oligarchy” of the ultra-wealthy taking root in the country and of a “tech-industrial complex” that is infringing on Americans’ rights and the future of democracy

On Jan. 3, President Biden honored Woodruff with the National Medal of Science at the White House in Washington, D.C.

A former FBI informant who fabricated a story about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting bribes has been sentenced to six years in prison

Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel are filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s decision to block a proposed nearly $15 billion deal for Nippon to acquire Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel

President Joe Biden says the United States will send nearly $2.5 billion more in weapons to Ukraine

President Joe Biden has made it official: The bald eagle is now the national bird of the United States

Bielema: Rita Crundwell's commutation was a miscarriage of justice and she should have had to the pay the full price in the name of fairness to her victims – the same ones she stole from year, after year, after year.

City of Dixon outraged after Crundwell’s prison sentence commuted by President Biden.

Rita Crundwell, the former Dixon city comptroller convicted of embezzling $53.7 million from the city – pegged as the largest municipal theft in U.S. history – is among one of roughly 1,500 people granted clemency by President Joe Biden just weeks before he leaves office.

President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, though he had previously said he would not do so

All that’s left is for President-elect Donald Trump to put his name on it — if he wants

A federal judge has struck down a Biden administration policy that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens

Joe Biden’s name wasn’t on the ballot, but history will likely remember Vice President Kamala Harris’ resounding defeat as his loss, too

Here are three races to keep an eye in Will County on as the votes roll in on Tuesday evening.

A jury trial is set for next February for a former Plainfield Township landlord charged with killing a Muslim child and attempting to kill his mother based on their Islamic faith.

President Joe Biden has delivered his valedictory address to the Democratic National Convention, saying, “I gave my best to you.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is among the speakers expected to take the stage on the convention’s opening night, said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the city was prepared for the thousands of activists expected to participate in protests around the DNC

Illinois Republicans say they are still as united about the upcoming election as they were at their national convention in Milwaukee last month, despite surge of enthusiasm for the Democrats’ new presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Taxpayers are expected to save billions after the Biden administration inked deals with pharmaceutical companies to knock down the list prices for 10 of Medicare’s costliest drugs

Democrats gathered in Springfield Wednesday for their annual rally at the Illinois State Fair amid a surge of enthusiasm and a renewed sense of optimism about their chances of retaining the White House in November.

President Joe Biden visited New Orleans on Tuesday to promote his administration’s “moonshot” initiative aiming to dramatically reduce cancer deaths

The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan

U.S. arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico during July have plummeted to a new low for Joe Biden’s presidency, raising prospects a temporary ban on asylum may be lifted soon

The deal was the latest in a series of prisoner swaps negotiated between Russia and the U.S. in the past two years

Calls of “Justice for Sonya” rang through the sanctuary of a church on Chicago’s West Side on Tuesday at a rally hosted in response to the death of Sonya Massey on July 6. 

President Joe Biden on Monday proposed major changes for the U.S. Supreme Court

President Joe Biden has delivered a solemn call to voters to defend the country’s democracy

Even though President Joe Biden won’t be on the ballot this November, voters still will be weighing his legacy

One Illinois Democrat senator said she'll always support the role of "the people in the process of selecting a new nominee and am anxiously awaiting to see who the elected delegates choose.”

Vice President Kamala Harris has received the backing of more than two-thirds of the Democratic delegates she needs to become her party’s nominee

Gov. JB Pritzker added his name to the growing list of influential Democrats endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris

Democrats are quickly rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris as their likely presidential nominee after President Joe Biden’s ground-shaking decision to bow out of the 2024 race

One of Will County’s top elected officials commended U.S. President Joe Biden after he made the stunning decision to drop out of the 2024 race for the White House.

She’s already broken barriers, and now Kamala Harris could soon become the first Black woman to head a major party's presidential ticket after President Joe Biden’s ended his reelection bid

With President Joe Biden ending his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats now must navigate a shift that is unprecedented this late in an election year

President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about his fitness for office just four months before the election

Despite a week of campaign stops, interviews and a determined drive to confront Republican Donald Trump, President Joe Biden has not softened the push for him to exit the race

President Joe Biden’s campaign is insisting anew he's not stepping aside

Democrats at the highest levels are making a critical push for President Joe Biden to reconsider his election bid

President Joe Biden has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a speaker at the UnidosUS annual conference broadcast on the White House’s YouTube channel

Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his party select a different candidate, according to a new poll

Dozens of aging bridges in 16 states will be replaced or improved with the help of $5 billion in federal grants announced Wednesday by President Joe Biden's administration, the latest beneficiaries of a massive infrastructure law

President Joe Biden is courting disenchanted voters key to his reelection chances