The death of former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar was personal for me. I share a hometown with Edgar, who died Sunday at age 79. Not only did we both grow up in Charleston, Illinois, but Edgar and my ...

(The Center Square) – In today's edition of Illinois in Focus Daily, The Center Square Editor Greg Bishop shares reaction from across the political spectrum to the passing of former Illinois Gov. Jim ...

At 84, former University of Illinois Professor Jim Nowlan concedes he is a little old to be tilting at windmills. But it's OK, he said, because "I've tilted at a lot of windmills" during a long ...

The Park Forest Historic Society archives, stored in the closed Church of St. Mary on Monee Road, will soon move to Village Hall.

At least 18 people were arrested outside the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Chicago Friday, where protesters have gathered several weeks in a row amid bubbling tensions as ...

Republicans are running out of excuses for refusing to swear in Democratic Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. Ohio Representative Jim Jordan was left grasping at straws to explain away the delay ...

Treating our values like a liability means selling them out, and Illinois can’t afford leaders who cave when it counts.' ...

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t quite the MAGA acolyte she once was. Greene has publicly broken with Donald Trump several times since his inauguration, differing from her “favorite ...

The Senate voted 48-51 to block a push to end US military strikes on alleged drug trafficking ships in the Caribbean without congressional authorization. Several Democratic senators led by Tim Kaine ...

In 1945, a brown mixed-breed dog arrived on Eastern Illinois University’s campus. Nobody knew where the stray dog came from, but the canine’s story soon spread.   The Eastern community grew fond of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — 4 family members of Illinois governor candidate killed in Montana helicopter crash, campaign says.