The woman was walking in the 300 block of West Wolf Point Plaza about 8:30 a.m. when suddenly she felt something hit her head, and she realize…
Bree Roberts was surrounded by a couple dozen children at the local Boys & Girls Club as she awaited the verdict in former Minneapolis pol…
CHICAGO (AP) — The pastor of a Catholic parish has been asked to step aside following allegations he sexually assaulted a minor 36 years ago, …
The Illinois Senate approved a bill that would prevent statements and actions made by participants in restorative justice programs — which aim…
Illinois Republicans have added a new twist to their call for an independent redistricting commission in hopes of overcoming Democrats’ claims…
The Illinois Senate advanced several bills to the House Wednesday, including one establishing a housing insecurity liaison for homeless colleg…
Prosecutors revealed new details Wednesday in the corruption case against Chicago Ald. Edward Burke, shedding light on the cooperation of form…
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Travelers from Iowa, other states and Washington, D.C., will face extra COVID-19 mitigations as part of Chicago’s emergency travel order
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Iowa Mourns: Larry Sonner, Methodist minister who married lesbian couple against church doctrine, dies of COVID-19
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Ernst takes up Republicans 'war on meat' with a bill banning meat bans
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Iowa Mourns: A POW, Mike Kurylo learned WWII was over when an American plane landed at his work camp. He died of COVID-19.
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Social justice legislation stalled in this year's Iowa legislature. Instead 'Back the Blue' bills are moving forward
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan agency delivered a split decision Wednesday in a high-stakes battle over a pipeline that carries oil be…
As former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd, law enforcement leaders in Illinois, …
Under the act, if voters of a municipality pass a rent control referendum, the municipality would be considered exempt from the state’s blanke…
Just as the guilty verdict was about to be read in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, police in Ohio shot and kille…
JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Kim Reynolds implored Iowans on Wednesday to get vaccinated for COVID-19, however she refused to acknowledge that s…
NEW YORK (AP) — When the verdicts came in — Guilty, Guilty, Guilty — Lucia Edmonds let out the breath she hadn't even realized she'd been holding.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — Public school students in East St. Louis will be attending class a month longer this year to make up for a loss in…
An Illinois Supreme Court decision Wednesday clarified that the state election code prohibits a person from collecting signatures for both a p…
ELGIN, Ill. (AP) — Two college students were killed and two others injured in a multiple-vehicle accident near the entrance of a northern Illi…
GRUNDY CENTER, Iowa (AP) — A man charged in the shooting death of an Iowa Highway Patrol trooper was released from a hospital Wednesday and tr…
CHICAGO (AP) — A Black Chicago teen’s lynching in 1955 galvanized the civil rights movement. A Black Minneapolis man’s killing by police last …
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man was charged Wednesday with killing three people and wounding three others in a weekend shooting at a crow…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police have identified a man whose body was discovered early this week alongside a submerged vehicle near a…
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A staff member for Illinois Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie has been reprimanded for using a state government email account to remind c…
JOHNSTON — The number of Iowa counties that have not needed their entire allotment of COVID-19 vaccines more than doubled over the past week a…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A staff member for Illinois Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie has been reprimanded for using a state government …
Lawmakers tasked with reviewing statues and monuments on state property heard Wednesday from professors and state government associations on w…
An effort to establish national park status for Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site and related areas has started again with the reintroduction…
Several hospitals in northwest and central Illinois are running out of beds because of the coronavirus pandemic, officials say.
DES MOINES — Proposals to change the bottle bill appear dead in the Legislature again this year, but that didn’t stop Iowans from offering the…