Senate Bill 1563, known as the Squatter Bill, advanced out of the House committee, and is headed to the full Illinois House for approval. It's a major step toward cracking down on squatting, and the ...

Former Illinois Governor George Ryan has died at the age of 91. He served prison time for federal corruption charges.

Robert Lee Fritz studied glass art at Illinois State University and became the area’s first independent hot glass artist ...

While George Ryan himself was not fashionable, his style was all about inclusion, equity and equality, writes Hedy Ratner.

His order seeking to cut off funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting affects about 1,500 stations, including ...

A judge has sentenced an Illinois landlord to 53 years in prison for a hate-crime attack on a 6-year-old Muslim boy and the ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is sounding the alarm on a potential measles exposure at Chicago O’Hare ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday appointed Bryan Traubert, a philanthropist and former eye doctor who is married to Penny Pritzker, ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...

Longtime Kankakeean and Illinois political powerhouse George Ryan died just before noon Friday inside his longtime Kankakee ...

George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, Illinoia House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, ...

A gun buyback program in Chicago has raised concerns after a .45 caliber Glock went missing and was linked to three different Chicago shootings, leading to an ongoing investigation.