Gov. JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 8, known as the Safe Gun Storage Act, in late July, which prohibits gun owners from storing their weapons in an unsecured way at any location where they know that the gun could be accessed by a minor, a person at risk of harming themselves or others, or by a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm.

The Illinois State Board of Elections said Montez Soliz remains an active candidate until a formal decision is made on the pending objection.

Discover how a 13-year-old Illinois student is educating voters through interviews with GOP leaders on YouTube and Spotify.

The law places limits on where immigration enforcement agents can detain people. It also gives those who believe their constitutional rights have been violated legal recourse.

A series of new Illinois laws set to take effect in 2026 will impact workers’ rights, including limiting the use of artificial intelligence.

Illinois once vowed to end partisan map-drawing. A new wave of gerrymandering shows just how quickly those promises have been abandoned, Andy Shaw writes.

Gov. JB Pritzker says Illinois lawmakers stand ready to respond if Indiana Republicans pass their new congressional map.

In small towns and farm communities across Illinois, a quiet rebellion is taking shape. Frustrated by what they see as decades of corruption, crime, and one-party dominance from Chicago, a growing number of residents are rallying behind a campaign to carve ...

Jim Edgar, Illinois’ 38 th governor who served from 1991 to 1999, died Sunday after disclosing an aggressive cancer diagnosis earlier this year. He was 79. Though he’d been out of power for 26 years — more time than the two decades he spent in office ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law Tuesday to make Illinois the first state to issue vaccine recommendations independent of the CDC.