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Confederate Railroad books Illinois gig after state fair ban

The country rock band whose logo with Confederate flags got it banned from a southern Illinois state fair will perform at a ...

800,000 eligible to clear their record in Illinois legal pot

For decades, getting caught with a small amount of marijuana could put Illinois residents in jail for up to six months and ...

Illinois becomes 11th state to allow recreational marijuana

Illinois' new governor delivered on a top campaign promise Tuesday by signing legislation making the state the 11th to ...

Illinois governor signs law expanding access to abortion

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed sweeping abortion protections into law on Wednesday, establishing women's access to the ...

Illinois poised to be 11th state to legalize marijuana use

Illinois is likely to become the 11th state to allow small amounts of marijuana for recreational use after the ...

Bernie Barriere

Illinois advances legalized pot after home growing settled

Illinois lawmakers working to legalize recreational marijuana hit a snag that other states have wrestled with: whether to ...

Kelly Cassidy

Illinois may expand abortion rights as other states restrict

The Illinois House voted to bolster the right to abortion on Tuesday as Democratic-led states respond to restrictions placed ...

Illinois governor promises fixes to child welfare agency

Illinois's child welfare agency has reviewed 1,100 of its ongoing abuse and neglect cases as part of a stepped-up effort to ...

Correction: Marijuana Legalization-Illinois story

In a story May 4 about Illinois marijuana legalization efforts, The Associated Press erroneously reported the last name of ...

Illinois pledges child-welfare changes following boy's death

Officials with Illinois' child-welfare agency said Friday they are reviewing cases involving the state's youngest children ...

Illinois child welfare system under fire after boy's death

Disturbing details emerged Thursday of the torture authorities say preceded the beating death of a 5-year-old Illinois boy ...

Illinois justices back pension for 1-day substitute teacher

A union lobbyist who worked just one day as a substitute teacher is entitled to a pension worth potentially tens of thousands ...

Records: Police paid for hotel for brothers in Smollett case

Chicago police provided a six-night hotel stay with separate rooms and 24-hour security to two brothers who said they were ...

Audit: Slow Legionnaires' response at Illinois veterans home

A state audit released Monday contradicted former Gov. Bruce Rauner's claim that his administration had done everything ...

Court lets Chicago cop's sentence stand in teen's shooting

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a prison sentence of less than seven years for a white Chicago police officer ...

The Latest: Man charged with murder in deputy's shooting

The Latest on a shooting at an Illinois hotel (all times local): 7:10 p.m. A man suspected of fatally shooting an Illinois ...

Adam Kinzinger

Trump meets with Illinois congressman who deployed to border

President Donald Trump met Wednesday with an Illinois congressman who was deployed last month to the U.S.-Mexico border with ...

February 22, 2019

Records: 75 percent of revoked Illinois gun licenses ignored

More than 75 percent of the people who received gun license revocations last year in Illinois ignored the notices, Illinois ...

February 20, 2019

Pritzker's $39B budget relies on taxing marijuana, betting

New Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker proposed a budget Wednesday that relies partly on tax revenues from two industries that ...

February 20, 2019

Aurora gunman's family: 'We deeply apologize' for shootings

The family of the man who fatally shot five people at a suburban Chicago manufacturing warehouse is offering condolences to ...