By Nancy Mathieson -  80 percent of McHenry County residents polled this past summer supported an initiative to include a ...

SPRINGFIELD - Monday morning, both Democrat and Republican presidential candidates filed with the State Board of Elections to be on ...

WASHINGTON - Republicans in Congress will be sending a measure to repeal Obamacare to President Obama's desk early in 2016, ...

by Ulysses Arn Rep. Tom Demmer Now that 2016 has officially started one of the nearly 300 new laws in ...

CAIRO - Governor Bruce Rauner returned early from his year end vacationing with family "out of the country" to tour ...

SPRINGFIELD - Texas became the 46th state to allow handgun owners to openly carry their weapons. Illinois is one of the ...

Jaylanie Aliyah Rodriguez was the first baby born in Cook County in 2016 - one minute after midnight at Advocate ...

NEW ORLEANS - Towards the end of 2015, antagonism towards law enforcement by the black community became a headline story. ...

CHICAGO - "Donald Trump tearing away the skin of the onion of white civility, Louis Farrakhan, the head of Chicago's Nation ...

Who was responsible for the rise of the Islamic State? Do you believe that the Supreme Court correctly struck down ...