Memorial service held for 2-term Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar
Edgar died last Sunday from complications of pancreatic cancer. He was 79 years old.
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Edgar died last Sunday from complications of pancreatic cancer. He was 79 years old.
Edgar died on Sunday from complications of pancreatic cancer. He was 79 years old.
Edgar’s body will lay in state in the Illinois State Capitol Rotunda on Friday.
The Chicago Teachers Union plans to respond after Gov. JB Pritzker advised the Chicago Board of Education that it cannot count on help from Springfield to close a $734 million budget gap.
Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) is seeking to have a statue of the Chicago-born pontiff built at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.
The state budget for the next fiscal year must be tackled by May 31.
Grayson, 30, is charged with first-degree murder, aggravated battery, and official misconduct in the July 6, 2024 shooting death of Sonya Massey in Springfield.
Massive cuts could come if Springfield does not restore funding. Here's what we know.
Noem is expected to talk about what she calls the failures of sanctuary city policies.
Johnson wants more state money for the Chicago Public Schools and the city’s efforts to reduce homelessness.
A coalition of organizations working to uplift and protect Asian American communities went to Springfield, Illinois, Wednesday to lobby lawmakers and hold a rally as part of a day of action.
Sen. Durbin spoke from his home in the state capital of Springfield, where he announced his first senate run back in 1995.
Durbin announced his first run for U.S. Senate office at his home in Springfield 30 years ago, and he came full circle Thursday to speak to reporters about his choice not to run for another term. Noel Brennan reports.
Sen. Dick Durbin addressed reporters in Springfield Thursday, a day after he announced he would not be running for reelection. Noel Brennan reports.
Former deputy Sean Grayson's trial has been moved to Peoria County, after his defense attorney argued publicity from the trial made it impossible to find an impartial jury in Sangamon County.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump told reporters the settlement, approved Tuesday night by the Sangamon County Board, is poignant.
Massey, 36, was shot and killed by a Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy in her home near Springfield on July 6, 2024.
Grayson is charged with first-degree murder for killing Massey inside her kitchen in July as she checked on a pot of boiling water.
Sean Grayson stands charged with murder in the shooting that killed Sonya Massey early on the morning of Saturday, July 6.
In the days after the police shooting that killed Sonya Massey, now-former Sheriff Jack Campbell suggested it was an isolated incident. But as Charlie De Mar reports, thousands of documents obtained by CBS News tell a different story.
The baseless rumors have been amplified in recent days by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
An Illinois man accused of stabbing a state child welfare worker to death as she was making a home visit to check on children has been found guilty but mentally ill in her killing.
Hundreds were injured, and dozens of Black-owned businesses and homes were destroyed.
"We want to stop any police officer who does not deserve to wear the uniform or the badge, and certainly carry anything that's close to a deadly weapon," Massey family attorney Tony Romanucci said.
Illinois State Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (D-13th) announced the monument would mark the moment in 1908 when a white mob incited a riot that left several people dead.
