Last Day For Early Voting In Runoff Elections
If you're a city resident, and your alderman didn't win a seat outright in the election last month, this is the last day to vote early for the runoff.
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If you're a city resident, and your alderman didn't win a seat outright in the election last month, this is the last day to vote early for the runoff.
A Cook County judge has decided that free speech rights protect political ads suggesting a mayoral candidate in Chicago Heights will allow drugs to be sold from City Hall.
A Rogers Park neighborhood family is trying desperately to get one thing from Mayor Richard M. Daley before he leaves office – a picture.
With many states trying to lure away Illinois businesses in the wake of a state income tax hike, Illinois lawmakers are moving to force companies that work for Illinois government to promise not to move out of the state.
Proponents of efforts to enact concealed carry laws in Illinois have released the results of a survey they say proves the issue isn't as geographically divided as it seems.
Illinois lawmakers have begun moving forward with an effort to lift the state's smoking ban at riverboat casinos located near other states without smoking bans.
Illinois lawmakers have begun moving forward with an effort to lift the state's smoking ban at riverboat casinos located near other states without smoking bans.
A state lawmaker wants welfare recipients to submit to drug tests in order to receive aid, but he admits the proposal isn't ready for a full debate – and probably won't make it into law this year.
State lawmakers and advocates for immigrants' rights are condemning a federal program, which they say is targeting families and not the worst criminals for which it was designed.
In a nearly 30-minute speech at National Defense University Monday night, President Obama offered a step-by-step chronology and justification of the why the U.S. decided to intervene in Libya. "In such cases, we should not be afraid to act - but the burden of action should not be America's alone," he said.
It has been common knowledge for some time that President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign headquarters will be in Chicago, but a report Monday has now revealed a more specific location.
Recently-released tapes indicate that now-imprisoned former Gov. George didn't fully understand the pardon process.
Even as the governors of Wisconsin, Ohio and several other states go after employee unions, a new report says union membership among state employees is growing in Illinois.
Improving education in Illinois has to start well before kindergarten, according to what a state House committee is hearing.
Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez has asked Illinois State Police to look into the Chicago Police Department's handling of a homicide case involving a nephew of Mayor Richard M. Daley.
