Bills To Legalize Marijuana Introduced In General Assembly
Separate pieces of legislation aimed at legalizing recreational marijuana use in Illinois were submitted to the state general assembly Wednesday.
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Separate pieces of legislation aimed at legalizing recreational marijuana use in Illinois were submitted to the state general assembly Wednesday.
With the state legislative session already half over, is Illinois closer to a budget or a government shutdown?
Rep. Steven Andersson, R-Geneva, says the state can't afford a paid day off for employees, given the current budget problems.
State Comptroller Mendoza accused Gov. Rauner of holding money and special funds in the event of a government shutdown over the budget.
The federal government has banned passengers on non-stop flights to the U.S. from eight Middle Eastern and North African nations from bringing any electronics larger than a cell phone in their carry-on luggage.
Cleveland-area pastor Darrell Scott abruptly canceled a planned meeting Tuesday with "street leaders" eager to bring an end to violence in Chicago with the help of President Donald Trump.
Chicago motorists caught on camera blowing through red lights will have triple the "grace period" before being slapped with $100 tickets, under a change made Monday that could reduce the number of tickets issued by nearly a third.
The war of words between Democrat Susana Mendoza and Republican Bruce Rauner escalated Monday. WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports.
State Sen. Daniel Biss said Monday he's running for Illinois governor in 2018, joining a growing field of Democrats hoping to unseat Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.
The family of a U.S. Army Veteran, ordered to go back to Mexico, is pleading with two U.S. senators to step in.
A couple shuts down their Chicago music store, and blame people who allegedly harassed and threatened them because they back President Trump.
Republican Peter Roskam said there are some parts of President Trump's proposed budget that he and others in Congress are likely to fight.
Attorneys for CPS filed a motion with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board on Wednesday, seeking an injunction that would block any potential strike, saying the union's previous one-day strike in 2016 was "illegal."
Not surprisingly, the mayor said Chicago Public Schools students need more time in the classroom, not less, but the mayor did not lash out at the teachers' union for suggesting a possible one-day strike on May 1.
Illinois Education Secretary Beth Purvis said Wednesday the plan would provide $215 million for retirement accounts administered by Chicago Public Schools.
Funding for many federal agencies expired on Saturday after Congress failed to pass half a dozen spending bills before the deadline, prompting a partial government shutdown.
The Justice Department released more new documents Friday from the Jeffrey Epstein files, more than a month after the DOJ's original deadline to do so.
The Senate passed a deal on a package of spending bills late Friday, sending it to the House, though funding for dozens of government agencies has still lapsed.
President Trump says he is nominating Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, filling a powerful economic policy role as the president pushes for lower interest rates.
President Trump is suing the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department for at least $10 billion, claiming the agencies unlawfully allowed an IRS contractor to leak his tax returns and those of his sons and company.
This week marks Identity Theft Awareness Week, and Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza emphasized some safety tips Monday for avoiding and dealing with identity theft.
A controversial data center in Naperville, Illinois, could be the cause to pack a city council meeting there on Tuesday night.
Police in the west Chicago suburb of Geneva are warning of a scam involving spoofed phone numbers.
Protesters on Tuesday were cranking up the heat on Peoples Gas over a recently proposed rate hike that would add an additional $10 to $11 a month to utility bills.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital announced this week that it is planning to open a new pediatric hospital in the west Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
It has been nearly six years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the many questions doctors are still working to answer concerns the long-term effects.
Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Wednesday.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation for a new cancer center.
Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital said Tuesday that it is no longer initiating gender-affirming medical treatment for minors.
January may be the coldest time of the year, but Chicago is already looking forward to summer farmers' markets.
A development proposal issued this month calls for the replacement of a building housing a Giordiano's pizzeria in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood with a new mixed-use building with 28 residential units.
United Airlines flight attendants picketed outside Chicago's Willis Tower Thursday morning as they fought for a new contract.
WSCR-AM, 670 The Score, will begin a simulcast on 104.3 FM next month.
Does the Chicago Bears' dramatic improvement this season, culminating in their first playoff run in five years, change the discussion about where they will build a new stadium?
Catherine O'Hara was best known for her comic performances in projects including "Home Alone," "Beetlejuice," and "Schitt's Creek."
Skiing great Lindsey Vonn crashed in her final downhill before the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
Among the 25 films selected by the Library of Congress to be preserved for future generations are "The Big Chill," Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel," the Civil War drama "Glory," and John Carpenter's "The Thing."
In a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, revealed that the right frontal lobe of his brain was injured in a car accident 25 years ago.
Sales of tickets to NHL games jumped more than 20% after the hit HBO show debuted in the fall, according to ticket vendor.
Millions of people were under cold weather advisories this weekend as another winter storm hit the East Coast. Cristian Benavides reports.
A man and a teenage boy were taken to the hospital after they were shot during a fight on a CTA bus on the city's West Side Saturday afternoon.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the store on 53rd Street was held Saturday.
Suzanne Le Mignot recently spent her 56th birthday in Panama and shows us some scenes, while Mary Kay Kleist and her husband, Mark Zonca, celebrated their 30th anniversary in Palm Beach.
The former UIC Flames coach is back leading young men at the high school level, this time at Lincoln-Way East in the south Chicago suburb of Frankfort. Jori Parys reports.
A man charged with the brutal murder of a pregnant woman in Downers Grove was back in jail Sunday after a hospital stay.
Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Department of Streets and Sanitation have announced the 25 finalists in the city's snowplow naming contest.
The Transportation Security Administration has begun imposing an additional charge on passengers without enhanced identification.
They are in the exhibition "Stories of Survival: Object, Image, Memory" at the Illinois Holocaust Museum presents Experience360.
A new water main break was impacting more than half of the community in the south Chicago suburb of Dixmoor Sunday afternoon.
Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel no longer will have to testify about an alleged "code of silence" at the Chicago Police Department, after a federal judge reversed an earlier ruling that would have required him to take the stand in a lawsuit over a botched police raid.
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, the busiest trauma center in Illinois, is sounding an alarm, as doctors brace for an influx of patients because of federal funding cuts under the Trump administration's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."
A Lake County woman has a warning for other homeowners, after she said a contractor took thousands of dollars, destroyed part of her home, and then vanished, even leaving his tools behind.
The crash on June 7, 2024, killed 76-year-old Bernice Pawilan. The driver had a history of traffic offenses, and, in fact, wasn't supposed to be on the road at all.
A town hall meeting on Monday night addressed the concerns of residents paying higher water bills after being forced to use a private utility company.
The former UIC Flames coach is back leading young men at the high school level, this time at Lincoln-Way East in the south Chicago suburb of Frankfort.
Ayo Dosunmu scored a season-high 29 points and the short-handed Chicago Bulls topped the Miami Heat 125-118 on Saturday night.
The Sacramento Kings are acquiring De'Andre Hunter from the Cleveland Cavaliers in a deal that sends forward Dario Saric and two future second-round picks to the Chicago Bulls, according to a league source.
Hannes Steinbach, Zoom Diallo and Wesley Yates III combined for 65 points as Washington beat Northwestern 76-62 on Saturday.
Elijah Crawford led UIC with 23 points and Abdul Momoh secured the victory with a layup with 51 seconds remaining as the Flames took down Southern Illinois 68-66 on Saturday.
Chicago police issued an alert on Sunday about a pattern of ATM thefts and an armed robbery that transpired on the city's Northwest Side in December and January.
Chicago police last week issued an alert about two instances of thieves swiping people's cellphones from tables at restaurants in fashionable areas.
One person has been arrested, and another remained on the loose Sunday, after a burglary on a train had police in Chicago's south suburbs asking residents to stay in their homes.
Chicago police were in a standoff Sunday morning in the South Shore neighborhood.
It was Thanksgiving Eve 2020, and Melissa Lamesch was excited about the upcoming birth of her first child. Investigators would learn there was someone who was not as enthused — the expectant father, firefighter Matthew Plote.
