Gov. Bruce Rauner's official calendar shows he scheduled a May 2015 meeting at the Executive Mansion with a former business partner who claims in a lawsuit they discussed a personal business deal.

Wisconsin employees of Kimberly-Clark are hoping their jobs will be spared in the paper giant's latest round of layoffs which include 5,500 workers.

The flu is not only making millions of people sick this year. It's causing fear and, along with it, a lot of confusion. Should you get a flu shot? Should you see the doctor? An expert advises.

Looking back later, Edwin Lyons would say that June 9, 1966, started just like any other day. That would soon change.

An attorney for an Illinois man accused of sex trafficking is citing the #MeToo movement in her request to delay his trial.

Debate over the Illinois attorney general's role in fighting corruption took center stage Wednesday at a livestreamed Democratic candidate forum ahead of the March primary.

The Rockford Artisan Market at Rockford Art Museum features more than 20 local artists and artisans, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27.

Chicago's complaint alleges U.S. Steel violated the Clean Water Act and its wastewater permit with illegal discharges from its Portage, Indiana, plant into a Lake Michigan tributary.

Harper College in suburban Chicago has fired a professor charged in Iowa with shooting at vehicles earlier this month.

Sandy Vasko, director of the Will County Historical Society, discovered a dried rose a few weeks ago that she said was on the funeral bier of Abraham Lincoln.

From Illinois Public Media, here's a great story you may have missed last month of the letters from war from members of one Rockford family.

MPR said in a statement Tuesday that Keillor was accused by a woman who worked on his "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show of dozens of sexually inappropriate incidents over several years.

U of I Extension has received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the Illinois EPA to help farmers and landowners reduce nutrient loss into Illinois waterways, including the lower Rock River.

A marked Rockford Police Department squad car struck a woman walking along West State Street, the department said in a statement.

The Democratic candidates for Illinois governor fought Tuesday to position themselves as the best person to appear on the November ballot, facing off in a rapid-fire forum.