Taxi Industry Paper: Did Fundraiser Change Alderman's Mind?
Questions are being raised about the timing of a fundraiser held for an influential Chicago alderman.
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Questions are being raised about the timing of a fundraiser held for an influential Chicago alderman.
A gun rights group is appealing after a downstate federal judge ruled against allowing Illinois to carry concealed weapons.
The American citizens facing criminal trial in the troubled nation include Sam LaHood, son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former Republican congressman from Peoria.
More than two weeks after suffering a stroke and undergoing brain surgery, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) has been upgraded to good condition and doctors said he will soon begin rehabilitation.
When the Naperville City Council meets tomorrow night, one member wants to revisit a new, looser liquor law that is due to take effect on May 1.
Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation allowing the City of Chicago to use cameras to catch speeders near schools and parks.
Chicago public libraries will reopen on Monday afternoons beginning next week.
Gov. Pat Quinn on Friday defended his call for "investment" in several new programs in his State of the State Address, even though the state is in a budget crisis.
Big corporations got tax breaks last year, and the state's largest public employee union is still asking, what about us?
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) is expressing extreme disappointment with the decision by the Susan G. Komen Foundation to stop funding cancer screening provided by Planned Parenthood.
In what her office is calling a "shift in philosophy," Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez plans to form a new unit that will actively review criminal cases involving questionable or wrongful convictions.
Roman Catholics in the Joliet Diocese will be hearing about birth control from their bishop at mass this weekend.
The Canadian activist group Adbusters has put out a call for 50,000 people to pack their tents and head to Chicago for a month of protests around the NATO/G8 summits this May.
The Cook County Board has decided to slow down on taking away Cook County Medical Examiner Nancy Jones' job-for-life status over the scandal involving bodies stacked on top of one another at the morgue.
Cook County commissioners have approved a measure that will give them the final say in whether major entertainment events like Lollapalooza will get an exemption from the county's amusement tax.
