More than 400 progressive community members, activists and elected officials gathered in Albany Park Saturday to discuss how a second Trump term will impact Illinois and Chicago.

President-Elect Donald Trump may have lost Illinois, but the margin he lost by was the best performance for a Republican presidential candidate in decades. On Monday, with 98 percent of precincts reporting,

A conservative legal organization is ratcheting up its opposition to the requirement in Illinois that mail-in ballots be counted for 14 days after Election Day by calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse federal court rulings that upheld the law because three Republican plaintiffs lacked the legal standing to challenge it.

The state Supreme Court unanimously overturned the conviction of Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a hate crime against himself in Chicago in 2019. Charlie De Mar reports.

The conviction of Jussie Smollett has now been overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court. The "kicked out of show business" comedian made the move after the election of Donald Trump The post Ellen DeGeneres Has Moved to Great Britain, Lists Montecito Estate: ‘Never Coming Back’ to the United States | Exclusive appeared first on TheWrap.

When Donald Trump returns to the White House in January, some Illinois lawmakers are looking at actions they think they should take to protect the state’s progress on issues like abortion and immigration.

For the first time Wednesday, jurors in Michael Madigan's trial came face-to-face with one of the recipients of $1.3 million funneled by ComEd to Madigan's allies. Madigan allegedly said, “This is how I reward my good soldiers.

Illinois workers who are missing money from their employers now have a new way to check on the status of lost wages.

A group of more than a dozen Chicago-area elected officials and nearly two dozen neighborhood organizations hosted a community meeting to share strategies for protecting policies already in place at the local and state levels with President-elect Donald Trump entering the White House.

An Illinois man was arrested in Chicago on Saturday after allegedly planning to abduct a child from a school in Florida, according to a criminal complaint.

With a team of four firefighters, the Taylorville Fire Department rescued two kids trapped in a well. Fresh from a devastating loss to Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris may now head to Capitol Hill to defy him in what could be her last major act in office.

The political battle over the future of EVs is playing out in parts of the St. Louis area and beyond. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to cut EV funding and end what he calls the “EV mandate” on day one of his upcoming presidency.