The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

Chicago fishing, Midwest Report: Illinois’ trout opener and punches of fall/winter

The opening of Illinois’ fall trout season leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 18, 2022

Adam Kinzinger says Jan 6 panel will pursue Secret Service testimony: ‘There is something going on’

The Illinois congressman says he has concerns about the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies ignoring similar reports of possible violence

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022

Ranking the top basketball coaching jobs in the south suburbs

When it comes to high school basketball in Illinois, it’s difficult to top the combination of the culture, success and tradition in the south suburbs.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 18, 2022

Doubling up to make it a Fish and Fowl of the Week

Lucas Galat doubled up on opening day of Illinois’ youth waterfowl hunt in the north zone.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

BNSF loses first case to go to trial under Illinois’ biometrics privacy law

In what is believed to be the first jury verdict related to Illinois’ strict biometrics privacy law, a $228 million judgment has been entered against BNSF Railway in a class-action lawsuit over the railroad’s collection of fingerprint data.

Chicago Tribune · Oct 17, 2022

Sun-Times/WBEZ Poll: Illinois voters don’t want Pritzker or Biden to run for president – but they’d take either over Trump

Illinois voters aren’t as sour on President Joe Biden as other voters across the nation, but they are just as unenthusiastic about another four years of the Delaware Democrat as they are about Gov. J.B. Pritzker making a run for the White House.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 17, 2022

DeSantis migrant flights may continue, records suggest, including to Delaware and Illinois

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration may keep flying migrants from the border to Democratic states using Florida taxpayer money, according to newly released public records.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Oct 15, 2022

GOP US Senate candidate’s name left off some ballots in rural Illinois county in now-corrected error

CHICAGO — Election officials in a small Illinois county southwest of Peoria printed the wrong name of the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate on several hundred ballots, forcing the officials Wednesday to keep the ballots separate from all others being cast in the Nov. 8 general election.

Chicago Tribune · Oct 14, 2022

AT&T Illinois fined for effort to illegally influence ex-Speaker Michael Madigan as new charges against him revealed

CHICAGO — Telephone giant AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a $23 million fine as part of a federal criminal investigation into the company’s illegal efforts to influence former House Speaker Michael Madigan, according to court records made public Friday.

Chicago Tribune · Oct 14, 2022

Madigan faces new charge, Pritzker tops Bailey downstate in new poll, Chris Rock opens Chicago residency and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 14, 2022