The pension-funding crisis undermining the stability of Illinois and Chicago is rippling through hundreds of smaller governments, squeezing budgets as officials prop up teetering police and fire retirement...

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday sought to rewrite a wide-ranging measure aimed at curbing heroin use, eliminating a requirement that the state's Medicaid health care program for the poor pay for medication...

Moments after the U.S. stock market opened Monday, anyone checking prices might have rubbed their eyes in disbelief: The Dow Jones industrial average had plunged nearly 1,100 points."A four-digit decline...

The legal battle of former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Peoria, is still being waged by his attorneys and federal prosecutors over which congressional documents Schock must turn over to the courts as potential...

Moments after Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a landmark public safety bill into law at a closed-door ceremony, the lawmakers who had ferried the bill to his desk walked two stories below the governor's office...

A Chicago man has pleaded guilty to four federal charges and admitted making bomb threats in his "war on SIU," prosecutors said Thursday.Derrick Dawon Burns, 22, admitted sending four letters threatening...

Taking action on dozens of bills, Gov. Bruce Rauner signed measures into law that would allow nursing home residents to put cameras in their rooms to protect against abuse and require high school students...

A law Gov. Bruce Rauner signed this week could help save a child's life, according to the local legislator who sponsored it.The law requires all newborns be screened for adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)."It's...

New students experiencing college for the first time often seek a supporting community through faith. The Rev. Jay Holden, assistant pastor at Our Savior Lutheran Church and president of SIU Campus Ministries,...

Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed a bill on Friday that would have allowed both student representatives on the SIU Board of Trustees to vote.Every year two students — one from the Carbondale campus and one from...