Poll Shows Emanuel With 58 Percent Support
One week before Chicago's mayoral election, a new poll suggests there will be a clear and easy winner next Tuesday.
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One week before Chicago's mayoral election, a new poll suggests there will be a clear and easy winner next Tuesday.
Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka says the state should not even think about bankruptcy.
Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown has been forced to hand out pink slips, as she seeks to meet demands to cut her office's budget.
Monday night marked the second-to-last debate between the four main candidates for Chicago Mayor, and the forum was relatively civil and at times jovial.
Some Illinois senior citizens will have to resume paying for public transportation after a break of more than two years.
In what could be his last major news conference on the subject, Mayor Richard M. Daley made a strong push for passage of what he's long called "common sense" gun laws.
Four men freed from prison after being wrongly convicted and sentenced to death are making a public plea to Gov. Pat Quinn.
Hundreds of home-school rights activists are expected to rally in Springfield Tuesday, against legislation that would require home-school children to register with the state.
man found guilty last month in the beating death of Fenger High School student Derrion Albert was not sentenced on Monday as planned, after his defense filed a motion for a new trial.
The local commercial real estate market is coming back, defying expectations of a prolonged collapse like the one that decimated the housing market.
Carol Moseley Braun is raising some eyebrows, after she made a comment about Adolf Hitler at a rally over the weekend.
Attorneys for deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich filed another motion Monday in advance of his new trial – this latest one asking a judge to let them play around 100 excerpts of secret FBI recordings at the trial.
A new report by an independent research group outlines the financial crisis facing Chicago's next mayor and City Council.
The second in charge at the Cook County Forest Preserve District could see a substantial increase in salary if Board President Toni Preckwinkle has her way.
The Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization has sent mayoral candidate Miguel Del Valle a public valentine.
