The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

Most of those getting away will be hitting the road, with travel likely to peak Friday, AAA said.

The archbishop of Chicago is urging the Illinois attorney general to provide information about newly uncovered cases of priests who sexually abused minors that were included in a statewide investigative report

A student hailing from the Mahabubnagar district in the State was killed in a road accident in Illinois in the United States on Tuesday.

CHICAGO — The Illinois man accused of crashing his car into a future abortion clinic in downstate Danville while attempting to set it on fire told authorities he intended to destroy the building so it could not be used to provide abortions and would attempt to do so again if…

Illinois’ attorney general ended a five-year investigation into sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state Tuesday, releasing a nearly 700-page report that revealed the problem was far worse than the church had said in 2018 at the start of the state’s review

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon and Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch announced agreement on a budget they said was balanced “without gimmicks.” Six hours later, Democrats filed the legislation, which must still pass both chambers before the governor can sign it.

Our state ranks 49th out of 50 states for funding and support of the estimated 300,000 Illinoisans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. That has to change, state lawmakers write.

CHICAGO — Mark Guarino is a child of Oak Park, Illinois, and has been a writer since high school, his work appearing in a vast and varied number of publications, on stages of theaters in plays he created and now, finally, between covers in a spectacular book dedicated to the…

The report names 451 clerics and religious brothers with substantiated claims of sexual abuse against them in the US.