While some are slowly improving, Quad-Cities school districts and others nationwide are still trying to address attendance ...

Rod Blagojevich was freed from a federal prison in Colorado in February 2020, 16 months after former President Donald Trump commuted the 14-year sentence of the former Illinois Gov. Nearly five years ...

The lawsuit, announced with fanfare, may be on shaky ground legally, but it carries a message about the Trump ...

Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, submitted her resignation Thursday, according to a source familiar with the move. Multiple members of the office where ...

The verdict capped an unpredictable four-month trial that gave jurors an up-front and uncensored look at the practice of behind-the-scenes politics in Chicago and Illinois in the previous decade.

The jury in Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial found the former Illinois House speaker guilty on several counts as ...

Federal prosecutors have made it clear they are listening to phone calls. But have the threats of federal investigations and ...

CHICAGO – Former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, ...

In a statement, Gov. J.B. Pritzker called the verdict an “important message to anyone in government” that “if you choose ...

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was suing New York state over its policy of limiting cooperation with federal ...

Michael Madigan, once the state of Illinois’ most powerful politician during his decades-long run as Illinois House Speaker ...