DU QUOIN, Ill. (WJPF) — Du Quoin Mayor Guy Alongi is promising a “significant economic development” at Monday night’s city council meeting. Alongi made...

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois is updating its birth certificate system to affirm the gender identities of transgender parents. The move comes after a transmasculine...

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors allege that a Chicago pastor stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from a food program that helps feed needy...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Courts Commission has removed a St. Clair County judge after concluding he lied to police during a 2016 murder...

PEKIN, Ill. (AP) — Officials in central Illinois say a printing glitch is responsible for some residents receiving up to eight voter registration cards...

CHICAGO (AP) — A 23-year-old community activist who works for U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia has been appointed to a vacant Illinois House seat....

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — An East St. Louis elected official owes more than $175,000 in accrued fines to the Illinois State Board...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Pentagon says the two soldiers killed Saturday in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb were from Virginia and Illinois. On...

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The Madison County state’s attorney wants to see if the federal death penalty could be imposed in the stabbing death...

CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago State University chief financial officer has been named the new executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher...