The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

Kawasaki announces dates for its 2023 Good Times Demo Tour, visiting cities in Florida and Illinois during the spring months.

Starting next year, workers will begin to earn paid leave on their first day at a rate of one hour of leave for every 40 hours worked, up to 40 hours of paid leave for the year.

[From the editor: I'm delighted to report that Stephen Halbrook will have a new column here on the blog, Second Amendment Roundup, which will offer a technical focus on recent Second Amendment cases. Halbrook is both a prominent gun rights lawyer and a leading legal scholar: He argued Printz v.…

Walter Stewart, a firefighter from Chicago in Illinois, saw his entire family dying after a blaze destroyed their house. He is donating the organs of his wife and three little kids

Ending money bail in Illinois would have disastrous consequences for public safety and the functioning of the justice system.

A herd of look-alike deer in Crete, what do to about a nuisance bobcat, Illinois’ last wild elk and no-ice impacts on Put-in-Bay island on Lake Erie are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Despite quick assessments, the state is failing to ensure that thousands of children get any follow-up help, let alone the type of intensive behavioral health support many need.

The people in charge need to be better than this, so this new attempt to bring new workers into the system and keep them there cannot fail.

She says she doesn’t expect to be a witness in the trial of four people accused of trying to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan to benefit ComEd. Ex-Ald. Mike Zalewski, her father-in-law, has a role in the trial but isn’t charged.