Illinois

Blagojevich gave a high-profile press conference outside his home in Illinois after spending his first night of freedom with his family.

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich expressed his gratitude to President Donald Trump for commuting his 14-year prison sentence on Tuesday, declaring himself a “Trumpocrat.”

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich told reporters on Tuesday evening, as he was boarding a flight home to Chicago after he was freed from federal prison: “I’m a Trumpocrat now.”

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision commute the prison sentence of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, despite having previously supported such a move himself. 

Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by former Sen. Barack Obama after he was elected president in 2008. To date, Blagojevich has served over seven years of his prison sentence.

The Indiana attorney general has scheduled a burial service Wednesday for the 2,411 aborted babies whose remains were discovered in September in the Illinois garage of abortionist Ulrich Klopfer after he died.

A recently proposed bill in the Illinois statehouse would ban drivers from pumping their own gas starting next year.

A man was allegedly pickpocketed, then beaten by a group of teenagers on a train Monday in Chicago, Illinois.

Eighteen state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in support of the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) challenge against Illinois’ non-resident concealed carry permit ban.

Police are looking for two suspects who caused nearly $10,000 in damage at an Illinois Walmart after they entered the store carrying a “Caution I Have the Coronavirus” sign and sprayed a mystery substance on different areas of the store.

The first person-to-person case of the deadly coronavirus has been confirmed in Illinois, bringing the total number of cases in the U.S. to six, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Thursday.

IIllinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker says he will not pause the state’s automatic voter registration program despite hundreds of non-citizens having recently been discovered registered to vote, many of whom voted in the 2018 elections.

The Naval Station Great Lakes is on lockdown Friday as law enforcement search for a “gate runner” ahead of a graduation ceremony slated to take place at the Illinois station. 

The Illinois GOP is demanding that state officials “who allowed” noncitizens to vote in the 2018 elections be fired from their positions.

A five-year-old from Illinois had one birthday wish: to ensure every child had a bed to sleep in. So he asked for bedding donations instead of traditional birthday gifts.

Hundreds of non-citizens were kept on Illinois voter rolls for more than 500 days before being reported to the Board of Elections by Democrat Secretary of State Jesse White’s office.

Non-citizens voted in the 2018 election and hundreds more were improperly registered to vote, an Illinois state election official confirmed to local media.

A mother grieving the loss of her daughter and grandchild recently received an unexpected gift from a stranger in Decatur, Illinois. 

A Chicago pastor is accused of taking nearly $1 million from a federally-funded food program for needy children and using some of the money to buy a Bentley.

The sanctuary county of Cook County, Illinois, released more than 1,000 criminal illegal aliens back into American communities in fiscal year 2019, federal data finds.

A Chicago pot dispensary licensed to sell recreational marijuana was robbed Monday morning in the city’s Logan Square neighborhood, police said.

Former Illinois state representative and sixth congressional district Republican candidate Jeanne Ives told Breitbart News Saturday that Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) is a “symbol”  of the radical left’s agenda.

Illinois Lieutenant Gov. Juliana Stratton was one of the first to buy recreational marijuana after it became legal across the state Wednesday. 

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was impeached and removed, and later criminally convicted, for trying to sell then-president-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat, has written an op-ed condemning Democrats’ ongoing impeachment effort.

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ governor granted more than 11,000 pardons for low-level marijuana convictions on Tuesday, describing the step as a first wave of thousands of such expungements anticipated under the state’s new marijuana legalization law.

A mom in Galva, Illinois, is making sure her son has all the skills he needs to succeed in life after he graduates from high school. 

An illegal alien accused of killing a father of two, Corey Cottrell, in June has been released from law enforcement custody into the United States by an Obama-appointed judge for the second time since Cottrell’s death.

Two Illinois state troopers made it their mission this week to save a heart transplant in danger of not making it to the hospital in time.

An Illinois town has approved a measure to fund a local reparations program with proceeds from the purchase of recreational marijuana.

Illinois State Sen. Martin Sandoval (D) issued a letter of resignation Wednesday amid a federal investigation for alleged fraud.