The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

Illinois has just passed a law that will allow child influencers to sue their parents for any appearances they make on their social media.

From Trevis Gipson's dominant day to Velus Jones' continued struggles, here are our takeaways from Saturday's Bears preseason victory.

Illinois is the first state in the U.S. to ensure child social media influencers are compensated for their work

More states, and Congress too, must stand up to the NRA and others who put the right to own battlefield-style weapons over the rights of everyday people to safely attend a Fourth of July parade, go to the grocery store or a block party or anyplace else in public.

On this day, former Boston Celtics forward Employee No. Eight -- better known as Antoine Walker -- was born in Chicago, Illinois.

The Bears are set to take on the Titans this Saturday in the preseason opener. Here are 10 players to keep an eye on.

The opinion was handed down in a lawsuit by a central Illinois lawmaker who argued that banning the sale of high-powered rifles and high-capacity magazines violates the state constitution.

Paul Borik, 91, who worked as a Chicago Park District horticulturalist at the Garfield Park Conservatory, is among those the state’s safety net increasingly is failing to protect, an Injustice Watch investigation has found.

The Illinois Supreme Court plans to issue an opinion Friday on the state’s ban of the type of semiautomatic weapons used in hundreds of mass killings nationally, including the Independence Day 2022 shooting that killed seven and injured dozens in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park