Scudder deftly explains the case history and why Madigan’s appellate arguments failed, routinely addressing what a reasonable jury could believe based on everything shown at trial.

Political rhetoric reaches a breaking point: Can America's leaders find unity before the next attack?

There’s plenty to like about the Bears’ draft class, but one glaring issue still looms large, and it’s not going away, Marc Silverman writes

What do you do at those moments or on those days that it seems like time is flying by? Does that dampen your spirit or maybe depress you a little? Time is constant; however, how we observe time in our minds is not.

This year's "Facts & Figures Report" from the Alzheimer's Association not only looks at the state of the disease in the U.S., but also includes a survey about Americans' feelings about developing dementia and what they're doing about it.

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

Amakuni turned humiliation into mastery. He let failure teach him, harden him and drive him forward until the thing that once shamed him became the thing that set him apart.

Some of the worst killers had what our society generally considers the “best minds.”

I know it sounds like a cliché, but it just doesn’t seem possible. And at the risk of embarrassing these tiny-babies-turned-strapping-men, I can’t let it pass by without reflecting on it.

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: The founders staked this country’s future on its land, and what we do with that land now tells the truth about whether we meant any of it, writes Shaun Langley of DeKalb's Citizens' Environmental Commission.

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.

As we enter the month of May, I am proud to reflect on the progress and activity happening throughout our great city of Rochelle.

Ogle County sports columnist Andy Colbert chronicles his experience running the Boston Marathon.

COLUMN: Starchy foods can be part of a healthy diet if you keep two things in mind, namely processing and preparation.

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.

A family of 30 wakes before dawn to travel to Indiana for a wedding — and discovers what matters most in the journey.

Betty Obendorf of the Polo Historical Society talks about recent finds while getting into item processing at the Polo Museum.

MEIER: We hear the term "hacked" often, in the context of credit cards, bank accounts, and social media accounts.

You could turn this into a party game: “You have 60 seconds to list what you would take in your basement during a tornado warning.”

The $28 trillion problem: How to fix America's spending and health care crisis at once.

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

Column: At its core, our mission is to generate economic impact and promote DeKalb County as a premier destination for business and leisure travel, writes Cortney Strohacker of the DeKalb County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

As Democrats in Illinois are once again plotting another massive tax hike, the most recent data shows that over 54,000 people and $6 billion of their hard-earned income have already fled our state.

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.

As Trump pushes to end the Iran war quickly, Iranian leaders are betting his domestic pressure will force a deal in their favor.

What will make the event watchable is how Trump reacts. He might play offense and list his grievances against the media, or he can fool them by taking an approach they don’t expect: Humility and self-deprecating humor.

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.

Drafting at 25 doesn’t have the sex appeal of prior years, but it may be the most important one we’ve had in the Ryan Poles era, Marc Silverman writes

Why is it so hard to turn a desire to do something for our health into a healthy habit? A new survey offers a few clues, providing proof that we're by no means alone in this, Joan Oliver writes.

Back in the day, male politicians cavorted with their female staffers and got away with it. But that was way back and many days ago.

How are supposed to kids supposed to know what’s happening on their Chromebooks if they’re looking at their iPhones?

In this week's column, Toby Moore said gardening does not require a full set of tools nor a large plot of land, but rather desire.

Few love the idea of a central government database, state or federal, tying everyone’s everything into a single record.

What’s funny about growing up in a deaf family? Almost everything, if you ask Craig Gass, who was the only hearing member of his household.

Police officers' families carry a heavy burden when they watch a loved one put on the uniform and walk out the door, columnist Tom Weitzel maintain in his Roll Call column

April 19 marks the anniversary of the clashes at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, between colonial militia and British regulars in 1775 that opened the Revolutionary War.

Communion services are held twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall. Singing is usually done for the first hour or so. 

Betty Obendorf of the Polo Historical Society covers a recent presentation she made on the Waterbury family.

It had to be years ago when I first heard someone refer to a vacation as an escape. It was clever and pushed the right buttons. I mean, yeah, taking time off is kind of an escape.

Rose, who co-chairs the Legislative Audit Commission, dressed down DOC Director LaToya Hughes for helming an agency with 40 shortcomings in fiscal 2023 and 2024.

A data-driven breakdown of the five most damaging tax myths in American politics – from billionaire taxes to corporate rates – and what the actual numbers show.

Longtime Ogle County sports columnist Andy Colbert talks preparing to run the Boston Marathon on April 20, along with local sports happenings.

A vice president having to go along with an action he himself would never have initiated highlights Vance’s fundamental problem as he hopes to succeed Trump as president.

Stories about “Dixon’s Darkest Day” often focus on its horrific elements. But this column will focus on its heroic elements.

These church leaders seem to be engaging in a kind of immoral equivalency. Do they not know that the Islamic regime hates Christians and Jews and believes their deity demands they be killed?

When ethics laws don’t explicitly ban certain conduct, the result is that the powerful are invited to dance in the gray areas until jurists ultimately define the actual rules.

Column: Now that spring has finally sprung, there is much happening in Geneva, writes Elisa Reamer of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce.