Illinois

Illinois added more residents over the last year than any other state in the Midwest, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and the FTC have reached a $25 million settlement with Grubhub over what officials called “alleged deceptive business practices.”

If you’re looking to get into a Secretary of State’s Office facility around the holidays, there are a couple of dates that you can cross off your calendar.

Human remains discovered three months ago in a pickup truck in the Mississippi River have been identified as an Illinois man who was reported missing in 2019. Police in East Moline, Illinois, say they’re treating the case as a homicide. The remains were identified as Daniel Claeys. He was a local man who was in his early 30s when his...

Illinois could soon see a new state flag as part of a contest from the Illinois Secretary of State, which was whittled to 10 entries from nearly 5,000.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., says she was “physically accosted” at the U.S. Capitol over Mace’s “fight to protect women.”

New Year’s Day is right around the corner, and in the state of Illinois that means new laws will go into effect, with nearly 300 hitting the books in 2025.

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a law to prohibit book bans in the state and enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

A central Illinois county coroner was found dead in an apparent hunting accident on a lake, authorities said Saturday.

Far-right streamer and influencer Nick Fuentes has been accused of battery after allegedly spraying a woman with pepper spray when she appeared at his front door in Illinois last month as his refrain “Your body, my choice” was going viral.

An Illinois officer is being hailed a hero after he jumped into action within minutes when a pregnant woman called 911 to say her brakes had suddenly stopped working and she was quickly approaching a lake.

Video shows how Deputy Tyler Coffey from the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office stopped a pregnant woman’s car from going into a lake after her brakes stopped working.

A handful of Midwestern cities ranked high on a new list of the “Best Places to Live in the U.S. for 2025-26, with two spots in Wisconsin coming in the top 15.

A man who was shot and killed while wielding a chainsaw inside an assisted living facility in a Chicago suburb has been identified by police.

What began as a call for a wellbeing check turned into a frightening situation that left a man armed with a chainsaw at a suburban Chicago assisted living center shot and killed by police over the weekend.

Illinois State Police arrested two Canadian residents after seizing more than 1,100 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $40 million from a semi-trailer along Interstate 80 near the Illinois-Iowa border, authorities said.

A man was shot and killed by police after he allegedly threatened residents and staff of a suburban assisted living facility with a chainsaw on Sunday.

A man was shot and killed by police after he allegedly threatened residents and staff of a suburban assisted living facility with a chainsaw on Sunday.

A high school hockey player from southern Illinois died this week after being shot on a St. Louis interstate while riding home from a hockey game, authorities said.

Illinois State Police arrested two Canadian residents after seizing more than 1,100 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $40 million from a semi-trailer along Interstate 80 near the Illinois-Iowa border, authorities said.