Republican candidate for governor Jeanne Ives says her contentious campaign ad against Gov. Bruce Rauner is an "accurate representation" of policies her rival has endorsed.

An outspoken Holocaust denier is likely to appear on the November ballot as the Republican nominee for a Chicago-area congressional district.

Lockdown hours at the Winnebago County Jail saw a sharp decline last month, but that hasn't slowed a stream of lawsuits that have hit the county over recent weeks.

As time expired in Super Bowl LII, crowds across the city spilled out of sports bars, apartments and houses. There were fireworks amid car horns blaring, and Philadelphians — young and old — descended on Broad Street.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice will give four counties $320,000 to develop a model that helps people transition back to their community once they're released from jail.

The era of trillion-dollar budget deficits is about to make a comeback — and a brewing budget deal could mean their return comes just next year.

The fact that Pope Francis received the eight-page letter, obtained by the AP, challenges his insistence that he has "zero tolerance" for sex abuse and cover-ups.

Below-zero temperatures continue to grip the Rockford area as another round of heavy snowfall is expected Monday afternoon.

Anyone who's driven across Illinois knows the state's transportation system is in desperate need of an upgrade, but the candidates for governor have different opinions on how to pay for it.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed that Mexico is free from a disease known as classical swine fever, which means all states in Mexico can now export pork products to the U.S.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers said Sunday that a GOP-produced congressional memo on FBI surveillance powers did not clear President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation.

By Meg Kinnard  Associated Press CAYCE, S.C. — An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a freight train parked on a side track in South Carolina early Sunday, killing two Amtrak crew members and injuring more than 110 people, authorities…

White, who is not a scientist, has compared the work of mainstream climate scientists to "the dogmatic claims of ideologues and clerics."

Good news for bird watchers and environmentalists: Illinois' bald eagle population is rebounding.

Last week’s ruling from the state's highest court centered around Julio Chairez, who was charged criminally for having a concealed weapon within 1,000 feet of Virgil Gilman Trail in Aurora.