Palatine Township voters will take up some of the state’s most urgent issues at the April 1 election, telling state lawmakers ...

Job growth was healthy across the nation in November with a gain of 227,000. Illinois’ metropolitan areas lost 3,400, with ...

Day means hundreds of new laws on the books, including one allowing residents to get a digital version of their driver’s ...

Nearly 9 in 10 of the Illinois job losses announced in November resulted from businesses closing. Chicago led the state for ...

Chicago Transit Authority Green Line riders were the most likely to be crime victims for the 12 months ending in September.

Colorado lawmakers passed an act in 2012 to focus on early literacy development and the science of reading. Its fourth ...

After getting his start in the Cabrini Green public housing development, Joel Hamernick has spent 30 years working with gangs ...

Voters in Lemont Township are taking up the pension crisis, gerrymandering and unfunded mandates. The township voted to put ...

Illinois House Bill 5896 would require more detailed reporting of how Springfield spends taxpayer money. It improves transparency, which is a step toward fiscal restraint.

The total share of crimes attributed to gangs also declined steadily during the past two decades, dropping from 2.9% of all crimes in 2004 to 0.7%. A 30-year veteran of Chicago gun violence ...