CHICAGO – For most of his adult working life, Tim Mapes only had one boss: former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. And for the more than 25 years he served as Madigan’s chief of staff, Mapes ...

Prosecutors charged two Venezuelan dentists with operating an unlicensed dental practice out of a Granite City home. Idania Moreno-Paal worked as a dentist in Venezuela, then came to the United States ...

A recent executive order by Gov. JB Pritzker set a new goal to begin development on new nuclear power plants by 2033, with the intention of bringing online enough energy to power up to two million ...

Australian biotechnology company to invest $1.5 billion by 2031 to expand Kankakee plasma-processing facility. The expansion will create 300 skilled jobs, plus 800 in construction for the site. JB ...

IDHS says it inadvertently stored protected health information on a publicly accessible website involving more than 32,000 Division of Rehabilitation Services customers and more than 672,600 Medicaid ...

A new Illinois law allows police to remove squatters from a person’s home for criminal trespassing. State law previously required property owners to go through a lengthy eviction process in court to ...

JB Pritzker said he hasn’t seen video of a Jan. 4 police shooting that left an unarmed woman dead after a traffic stop in a vehicle that was reported stolen. The St. Clair County state’s attorney ...

MOORE’S SUMMARY: Gov. JB Pritzker said on Wednesday that House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch has “a responsibility to be utterly and completely transparent” about his handling of sexual harassment ...

Article Summary Clair County State’s Attorney James Gomric has declined to file criminal charges in the officer-involved shooting of Rachel ...

Article Summary Darren Bailey’s campaign is getting behind stalled Statehouse legislation that would make nongovernmental organizations that receive at least ...

MOORE’S SUMMARY: Jessica Dixon Heitman was appointed to complete the term of former Rep. Harry Benton, D-Plainfield, and replace him on the November ballot. She beat out six other challengers to ...

Article Summary The Middle Fork River Forest Preserve in Champaign County is Illinois’ only International Dark Sky Place as judged ...