The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

The House Oversight Committee on Friday launched an investigation into Amazon.com Inc's (NASDAQ:AMZN) labor practices, CNBC reports. The House demanded information about a deadly warehouse collapse in Illinois in 2021 as a tornado hit the warehouse, killing six workers. The workers had alleged inadequate safety protocols for severe weather events. The Competition Commission…

Since a new provision of the Illinois SAFE-T Act took effect Jan. 1, dozens of people on home confinement in Cook County have been arrested while free of supervision, records show.

She lost all 38 family members and her right arm to the Nazis but found a new life in Chicago with fellow survivor Morris Bauer, who “told her that she need not worry about the future because he would always take care of her.”

It’s certainly not the first time the Democratic Governors Association has tried to influence a GOP primary for Illinois governor. But Republican Richard Irvin’s campaign said the new ad shows “Pritzker is running scared,”

One year after a law was passed to cap interest rates, low-income people have access to better, lower-cost borrowing products.

Channel surfing may soon be a solar-powered activity in Chicago.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Maria Pike found her calling after her son Ricky was shot and killed in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood in August 2012.

CHICAGO — Illinois’ top Democrats have put together an organized effort to consider pitching Chicago to national party leaders as the site for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominating convention, officials said Wednesday.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is working with Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s team and a litany of other top Democrats in the state to start laying the extensive groundwork needed to put together a bid for what would the city’s first major political convention since 1996.

Nearly 1.2 million National Flood Insurance Program policyholders nationwide are eligible for an immediate decrease in flood insurance premiums.

IAA, Inc (NYSE:IAA) is expanding its branches in Iowa and Illinois to meet increased demand in the growing Midwestern market. The company doubled its capacity at the IAA Des Moines (IA) branch and increased by ~30% at IAA St. Louis (IL). "The branch expansions in Illinois and Iowa will help to meet growing…