More Than 200 New Laws Set To Take Effect
As the calendar clicks over to a new year on Sunday, more than 200 new laws are going into effect in Illinois.
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As the calendar clicks over to a new year on Sunday, more than 200 new laws are going into effect in Illinois.
Get into trouble on the weekends in Cook County and no matter where you are arrested — from Schaumburg to the city's West Side to Orland Park — you'll soon be able to appear before a judge only at Chicago's 26th and California courthouse.
Amid new calls for an apology for comparing the gay rights movement to the Ku Klux Klan, Francis Cardinal George has defended his statements, saying organizers of the Gay Pride Parade "invited" the comparison.
Dozens of people have filed to run for Illinois' 18 seats in the U.S. House.
The town of Cicero will be forking over $500,000 as part of a settlement to a former town worker.
A new year doesn't mean the end to old problems for the State of Illinois.
A new law taking effect on Jan. 1 will mandate Illinois public officials learn more about transparency, but a good government group says it's not enough.
A federal judge has granted Cicero and Town President Larry Dominick a new trial in a civil lawsuit.
The wish has been granted for a group of protesters wanting to demonstrate against the G8 and NATO summits in Chicago this spring.
A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced Tony Rezko to 7 1/2 years in prison for a fraud conviction, but will allow him to serve it at the same time as his longer sentence in a separate case.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) spent the day Wednesday gathering information about education reform on Chicago's South Side.
A conservative think tank says the population exodus from Illinois to other states since the mid-1990s has cost the state $26 billion in taxable income.
In the feud over the Chicago ward remap, a familiar, but oft-dismissed push to cut the City Council in half is resurfacing.
Senior Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is hoping the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il is an opportunity for a new relationship with that nation.
Rod Blagojevich's defense attorneys have officially taken the first step toward an appeal of the former governor's conviction on 18 corruption counts.
