The Chicago Board of Education passes a nearly $10 billion budget — with a big assumption. And calls for Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch to resign over his handling of a sexual harassment case.

A newly released report shows resigned Rep. Harry Benton engaged in a “pattern and practice of inappropriate sexual conduct” ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed sweeping regulations Friday aimed at social media companies and cracking down on “addictive ...

It remains unclear where the additional funds would come from. The $55.9 billion spending plan Pritzker signed into law in ...

That missed deadline comes as CPD officials acknowledged, again, that the number of times officers used force against members of the public “continues to trend upward,” according to the report.

The Chicago Board of Education on Thursday passed an approximately $10 billion budget after hours of contentious debate, a ...

A recent report from the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice says Cook County judges often ordered accused people to be ...

Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires ...

Until recently, these state programs were split across three state agencies and the governor’s office. But since July 1, they ...

The $70 million program can support up to 175,000 Illinoisans who lost or received reduced SNAP benefits due to changes in ...

Chicago taxpayers have already paid $3.4 million to defend the lawsuit that accuses the CPD of making more than 1.5 million ...

Chicago Public Schools leader Macquline King on Thursday's anticipated budget vote. And mayoral candidate Lisa Nee joins us to talk about her campaign as ballot petitions begin.