Palatine Township voters will take up some of the state’s most urgent issues at the April 1 election, telling state lawmakers ...

The first three years of elementary school are critical in building reading skills so a student succeeds in school and life.

Job growth was healthy across the nation in November with a gain of 227,000. Illinois’ metropolitan areas lost 3,400, with ...

Day means hundreds of new laws on the books, including one allowing residents to get a digital version of their driver’s ...

Nearly 9 in 10 of the Illinois job losses announced in November resulted from businesses closing. Chicago led the state for ...

The nation’s longest-serving legislative speaker, a woman who called herself “super mayor” and a collection of other self-serving public servants are among the highest-profile corruption cases in ...

Chicago Transit Authority Green Line riders were the most likely to be crime victims for the 12 months ending in September.

After getting his start in the Cabrini Green public housing development, Joel Hamernick has spent 30 years working with gangs ...

Voters in Lemont Township are taking up the pension crisis, gerrymandering and unfunded mandates. The township voted to put ...

You might celebrate the holiday season by indulging in not-so-healthy habits. State lawmakers are encouragingly discouraging you for the sake of their budget.

The total share of crimes attributed to gangs also declined steadily during the past two decades, dropping from 2.9% of all crimes in 2004 to 0.7%. A 30-year veteran of Chicago gun violence ...