The Chicago Bears’ potential move to Indiana took another step forward when a key committee approved a plan to create an agency that would help get a stadium built.
Pope Leo XIV says he's “very disappointed” that his home state of Illinois has approved medically assisted suicide.
Illinois residents with terminal illnesses may choose to end their lives on their own terms under a law Gov. JB Pritzker has signed.
The Trump administration is threatening to pull public transportation funding from Chicago unless the city tightens security after a man allegedly set a woman on fire inside a commuter train.
Illinois has a new law shielding immigrants from federal enforcement near courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day cares.
The Border Patrol leader who’s behind an aggressive immigration crackdown across the Chicago area is applauding his agents’ use of force and aggressive tactics.
A judge has blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area for two weeks, finding no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” is brewing in Illinois.
President Donald Trump says the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city.
Democratic governors from California and Illinois are threatening to leave the National Governors Association unless it denounces President Donald Trump's troop deployments to states.
Illinois and Chicago have filed a lawsuit aiming to stop President Donald Trump's administration from sending hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago.
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.
President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of 300 National Guard members to Chicago, where on the same day Border Patrol agents shot and injured a woman they said tried to run them over.
The Border Patrol agent who has led an immigration crackdown in Los Angeles has arrived in Chicago, possibly signaling a new phase in an enforcement surge announced last week.
Activists in Chicago’s immigrant rights network say there’s been a noticeable uptick in immigration enforcement in recent days as the nation’s third-largest city awaits federal intervention repeatedly promised by President Donald Trump.
Leaders of a Chicago suburb that houses a federal immigration processing center say they were told that the Trump administration's promised immigration enforcement surge will run for about six weeks.
President Donald Trump says he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to combat crime in Chicago and Baltimore, despite staunch opposition from state and local officials in both cities.
The Trump administration has asked a military base outside of Chicago for support on immigration operations.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is doubling down on his message to President Donald Trump that the nation’s third-largest city doesn’t need or want military intervention to fight crime.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other top Democrats are warning President Donald Trump to stay out of the cities they run.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to remove from office a top state lawmaker he called the “ringleader” of Democrats who left the state to block a vote on a new congressional voting map pushed by President Donald Trump.
Dozens of Democratic state lawmakers in Texas have scattered across the country in a last-ditch effort to prevent Republicans from adopting U.S. House maps that President Donald Trump wants in place before the 2026 midterm elections.
Democrats are out of power in Washington but hold 23 governors' seats, including in five of the seven presidential battlegrounds Donald Trump swept last year.
Texas Democrats have left the state in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional maps that Republicans hope will net them several additional U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
JB Pritzker, who has spent years building a national profile, will seek a third term as Illinois’ governor.
Republicans in Congress called several Democratic governors to Washington on Thursday to question them over policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Illinois is getting set to close on property that officials want to buy to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes.
Democrats are looking for the right message and messengers to lead the opposition to President Donald Trump in his second term.
Illinois State Police say a car smashed through a building during an after-school program just outside Springfield, Illinois.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking at a major Democratic fundraiser in New Hampshire as he continues to build his national profile.
Spending by billionaires including Elon Musk and George Soros has helped push total spending on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race won by the Democratic-backed candidate over $100 million.
The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe’s leader 175 years ago but stolen by the federal government 20 years later.
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois is trying to chart a path for national Democrats to counter President Donald Trump.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is planning to endorse a statewide ban on cellular devices in public schools.
More than 130 people allege they were sexually abused as children while in custody at youth detention centers in Illinois.
Illinois will soon become just the fifth state in the nation to prohibit corporal punishment in all schools.
A federal judge has blocked a new Illinois law that allows the state to penalize anti-abortion counseling centers if they use deception to interfere with patients seeking the procedure.
Crisis pregnancy centers in Illinois that are popping up near abortion facilities to offer information about alternatives face penalties if they disseminate misleading or untruthful information.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the bipartisan Council of Great Lakes Governors joined forces to ask federal leaders to include funding for the Brandon Road Lock and Dam in the 2022 Water Resources Reform and Development Act.
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Kalamazoo chiropractor Garrett Soldano raised nearly $625,000 since launching his run for governor, topping the field of Republican candidates vying to face Democrat Gretchen Whitmer next year.
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In addition to legalizing marijuana, the 610-page bill offers relief to the roughly 770,000 residents of the state with marijuana-related offenses on their criminal records, according to the Marijuana Policy Project. The bill also includes a "social equity program," which makes it easier for those with marijuana convictions to get business licenses. Pritzker is fulfilling a promise he made on the campaign trail and is making Illinois the 11th U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana. So far 18 states have decriminalized marijuana, the MPP says, and in all 34 states allow patients with health complaints to use medical marijuana. And Illinois is the latest state to offer clemency for marijuana convictions.
CBC News via CNN(CNN) - Illinois is now the 11th state in the United States to legalize the purchase and possession of recreational marijuana. JB Pritzker signed a bill Tuesday that allows adults 21 and over in the state to buy and possess small amounts of the drug. The measure, which passed the Illinois General Assembly earlier this month, also pardons individuals with nonviolent convictions for amounts of cannabis up to 30 grams. Pritzker, who campaigned for legalizing marijuana, said the legislation brings an "overdue change to our state." Illinois will charge a 10% tax on cannabis products with a THC level at or below 35%, a 20% tax on all cannabis infused products and 25% tax on cannabis with a THC level above 35%.