On May 19, 1875, a Cook County jury handed down a verdict in a case concerning the health and welfare of Mary Lincoln, widow ...

A growing number of state lawmakers are moving to repeal a 2015 Illinois law penalizing companies that boycott Israel to ...

A Senate committee on Wednesday advanced a measure aiming to limit the circumstances under which tenants can be evicted due ...

House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch made the extraordinary move of removing an appropriations committee chair on Wednesday ...

Several pounds of a material consistent with being explosive materials along with suspected detonation devices were allegedly ...

Citizen advocacy groups, on Wednesday, argued that a proposed $134 million rate hike for natural gas use is beyond what is ...

Natural gas customers in the Chicago suburbs and downstate Illinois are likely to see an increase in their monthly bills next ...

Gov. JB Pritzker’s office is now projecting state revenues to come in about a half-billion dollars below the baseline ...

Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood shook his head when he talked about the recent death of a 20-month-old boy from suspected ...

Nothing a judge could do would keep a 21-month-old girl safe from her mother, especially after she left the child with a convicted sex offender.

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Gov. JB Pritzker said a zero-emission electric bus company will open a manufacturing plant in the Greater Peoria Area — the first for the company within the country ...

A Central Peoria man, facing murder and RICO allegations, will appear in court on Monday to see if he will be held pending ...