An Illinois study finds gaps in protections for displaced coal workers, with non-union employees receiving less support.

A lack of domestic workforce participation in agriculture pushes Illinois farmers to employ foreign workers through the temporary H-2A non-immigrant visa program. Illinois’ employment of farmers ...

Jay Doherty, a longtime lobbyist and consultant for electric utility Commonwealth Edison, has been sentenced to a year in prison for his role in a bribery scheme aimed at former Illinois House Speaker ...

Gov. JB Pritzker reports $9.4 million in 2025 income as his net worth climbs to $4.2 billion, excluding blind trust income.

Illinois Republicans seek state oversight after hundreds of Champaign County voters received incorrect ballots.

Pritzker and Bailey clash over education, taxes, public safety and Trump during their only Illinois governor debate.

JB Pritzker declared the entire state a disaster area on Tuesday due to the rising cost of diesel fuel and took executive ...

Attorney General Kwame Raoul on Tuesday discussed the difficulty of working with the federal government at a City Club of Chicago event. He cited federal immigration enforcement efforts and withheld ...

Two years after its launch, a state medical debt relief program has erased more than $1.4 billion in debt, exceeding the original goal by $400 million. Almost 700,000 Illinoisans across all counties ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated on 3/20/25 to reflect a clarification requested by the Illinois Department of Human Services. (This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network ...