The Illinois Supreme Court has selected Justice P. Scott Neville Jr. as the 123rd Chief Justice. According to a release from ...

Chicago has a lead pipe problem. The city estimates that about 412,000 out of roughly 491,000 water service lines require ...

REDISTRICTING DE JOUR: The redistricting battle isn’t just a Texas or California thing. The fight has returned to draw ...

Any deployments ultimately would be President Donald Trump’s call, but Gov. JB Pritzker said such a move would be against federal law.

Two veteran federal officials from Illinois are relaunching an effort to amend the Illinois Constitution and end partisan ...

Our interactive tool is the first to publicly plot lead service lines against race and poverty data. Here's why we mapped the city's lead service lines, what we found and how to know if you're at risk ...

Lead water service lines are all over the city, but majority Black and Latino neighborhoods bear the biggest burden, our analysis finds.

Maybe Republicans will lose the gubernatorial election again. But they should seize the chance to set the party straight by saying reject extremists who can’t unify people — or win.

The enrollment drop is part of a national trend as public schools are relying more on tuition and fees to balance their books ...

For the second week, Texas Democrats are staying in Illinois to avoid voting on redistricting back home that could strengthen a Republican majority.

People in states like Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Washington, South Dakota, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Idaho, Alaska, Oregon, New York, Nebraska, Iowa and ...