Pastor Wayne Fricks, a site coordinator with the Community Healing Resource Center, believes declining crime shows ...

Violent crime was down in Rockford for the third year in a row. Rockford Police Chief Carla Redd credited more tips from the ...

John Cabello is calling for Gov. JB Pritzker's resignation and the creation of an Illinois DOGE. The Rockford Police ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is set to unveil his 2026 budget proposal at the annual State of the State budget address on ...

BLOOMINGTON — John Kim, a Bloomington-based attorney, has been reappointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to serve as chair of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism ...

“The Department of Education funds important programs like special education. We have in the state of Illinois many, many parents and their children who need special education and that funding ...

A federal judge in Rockford is calling for stiffer penalties ... Johnston — who with former Illinois State Police Col. Mike Snyders sent a letter to the commission Monday — wrote that the ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to implement tariffs on key United States trading partners could affect more than $100 billion worth of goods imported to Illinois from Canada, Mexico and China.

It’s a tariff war that has Illinois lawmakers — and farmers — feeling uneasy about the economy. Why it matters: Agriculture is Illinois’ No. 1 economic driver, so a trade war wouldn’t ...

There are some other exclusions. Illinois has 44,784 federal civilian employees as of December 2024, according to data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Illinois’ District 7 ...

Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Hey, what's new? Us? Oh, not much . . . except IJ is headed to the U ...

A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier's campaign for Rockford City Council is raising questions about a 1939 law that prohibits federal employees from participating in a partisan elections.