Despite Illinois experiencing job growth in some sectors, it remains one of the states with the highest unemployment rates. It’s been that way for 66 of the 77 months J.B. Pritzker has been governor ...

Illinois is adding a 25-cent fee to all bets and 50-cent fee to high-volume sportsbooks such as DraftKings and FanDuel starting July 1. Illinoisans lost $1.12 billion in 2024, with $700 million of ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a $55.2 billion budget propped up by five new tax hikes starting July 1. Gas, phone bills, tobacco, ...

Just in time for Independence Day travel, drivers will face Illinois’ latest gasoline tax hike. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has added ...

While 47 states celebrate freedom with fireworks blazing across the sky, Illinois clings to a 1942 ban that limits autonomy ...

Rich Witzel is a legal research intern. He is a rising junior at Georgetown University, where he is a member of the men’s rowing team and pursuing a degree in foreign service, focusing on global ...

J.B. Pritzker wants a third term as Illinois governor, but based on his history of boosting taxes and creating spending ...

Climate change education, gender inclusiveness, birth certificates, prostitution privacy, court translators and insulin costs ...

Red-light cameras on Chicago’s South Side issued more than triple the number of tickets per intersection as on the North Side ...

Illinois students are not learning, but instead of boosting the quality of education state leaders are trying to lower ...

The average retired career state employee in Illinois was paid $93,558 in pension benefits last year. That’s $24,538 more ...