Illinois policymakers are considering changing a law that requires schools to use classroom test scores as a factor in ...

Rumors of agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in local school communities have put migrant parents and ...

The Powerball jackpot was last won Jan. 18, when an Oregon player hit the $329 million grand prize, lottery officials said.

Getty Images/iStockphoto A Powerball ticket sold in Illinois won $50,000 but just missed the $101 ... Don Sweeney has been a ...

Extremely complicated. Undaunted by the logistics, Indiana Republican state legislators are inviting counties in downstate Illinois to cut ties with the “Land of Lincoln” and join the Hoosier ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston wants the nearly three-dozen Illinois counties that have voted to secede to consider redder pastures. “We think instead of seceding and creating a 51st state ...

Delvarrion D. Harris faces charges for a Venice bar shooting that injured 12 people, with all victims surviving.

An Illinois city council member stirred anger from residents and colleagues after changing his Facebook profile picture to a swastika — and it’s not his first brush with accusations of antisemitism.

according to the newspaper. In the November election, a total of seven counties in Illinois faced a ballot question on exploring the idea of secession, and all seven voted in favor of the proposal ...

Since then, his performances around the world have garnered praise, with the Italian newspaper Il Giornale writing that Malofeev "manifests the piano mastery of the new millennium in itself.” ...