The state of Illinois recently celebrated its very first Barack Obama Day holiday, and as the day wound down, a list of Hollywood notables jumped to Twitter to celebrate with the Land of Lincoln.
Illinois residents celebrated their first annual “Barack Obama Day” on Saturday after the state legislature voted in 2017 to make the day honoring former President Barack Obama a state holiday.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner gave the green light on Wednesday for parents to administer medical marijuana to a child on school property.
President Donald Trump’s increasingly tight labor market, through strict immigration enforcement, is delivering jobs for Americans with disabilities in the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.
One out of four counties in Illinois is a gun sanctuary, which means they are refusing to enforce newly-passed gun controls.
The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) is seeking a court order to stop Deerfield, Illinois, from implementing its confiscatory “assault weapons” ban.
A man is in police custody for spray painting swastikas on as many as 200 gravestones at an Illinois cemetery.
Illinois is losing more citizens than nearly every other state, and according to reports, the biggest reason citizens are leaving is that they can no longer afford to live in the Land of Lincoln.
A good guy with a gun intervened Wednesday morning and shot an alleged gunman at Illinois’s Dixon High School.
On Monday, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) proposed gun confiscation orders and a 72-hour wait period on firearm purchases. His proposals were made via proposals to legislation currently pending in the Illinois legislature.
Former Democratic congressman Mel Reynolds says that he has “given up on America” and will move to Africa after he serves his latest prison sentence.
Five Illinois counties have now declared themselves to be “sanctuary counties” for gun owners, and 20 more counties in the state are considering the same move.
Effingham County, Illinois, officially declared itself a “sanctuary county” for gun owners on Monday in reaction gun control overreach.
Illinois Democrats are pushing legislation to reward schools that use funding to hire therapists instead of armed guards.
Facebook could reportedly face billions of dollars in fines over their facial recognition features due to an Illinois law relating to the collection of biometric data.
Rep. Dan Lipinski – one of the last pro-life Democrats in Congress – beat out the abortion lobby’s little-known primary challenger in a tight race that came to represent the abortion industry’s coup of the soul of a party that claims to welcome “diversity,” but apparently not when it comes to abortion.
Jeanne Ives, on the home stretch of a hard-fought Republican primary, describes her gubernatorial campaign in Illinois as proof that conservatives can hold “lame, fake Republicans” like Gov. Bruce Rauner (R-IL) accountable.
According to a recent poll, Republican gubernatorial candidate for Illinois Jeanne Ives is moving closer to incumbent Gov. Bruce Rauner (R-IL) ahead of next Tuesday’s primary to determine the GOP’s nominee for the Prairie State’s governor.
According to a new report, the opioid crisis in Illinois has driven up emergency room visits by 66 percent.
Unions across the nation are looking to California for new laws to undermine the impact of the expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling against mandatory public-employee union dues.
United States Steel announced Wednesday morning that it would call back 500 employees to work at its Granite City, Illinois, plant after President Trump announced that the U.S. would impose tariffs on foreign steel.
A man armed with an AR-15 saved a neighbor who was being attacked with a knife Monday in Oswego Township, Illinois.
A powerful California nurses’ union warned that a coming U.S. Supreme Court decision, which could stop unions from requiring non-union employees to pay dues, could starve unions to death.
A Mexican national has been charged with murder in Chicago for allegedly almost decapitating his crying infant son to keep him quiet, police say.
City officials announced Friday that the estimated cost for the proposed Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Illinois, would cost taxpayers $175 million.
An Illinois McDonald’s has fired an employee for shouting an expletive at a state trooper looking to order food from the restaurant’s drive-thru.
Conservative Illinois gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives has released a new TV ad aimed directly at the conservative voters whom she says sitting Governor Bruce Rauner has betrayed over the last four years.
Conservative State Representative Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) received a massive donation last week from Lake Forest businessman Richard Uihlein, who formerly backed incumbent Republican Governor Bruce Rauner.
Illinois State Representative Jeanne Ives is a U.S. Army veteran who served her country overseas. Now, the third-term Republican has taken on her toughest challenge yet: running against incumbent Gov. Bruce Rauner in the Illinois primary March 20.
While Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he is “focused” and working “full time” for illegal aliens, black Americans in his state of Illinois remain excessively unemployed, far above the national average.
A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama ruled Friday that an 11-year-old girl who suffers from leukemia can use medical marijuana at her suburban Chicago elementary school.
Chicago Public Schools employees reportedly stole thousands of dollars in school-funded gift cards meant to be used as incentives for special needs students, according to a report from the school district’s inspector general.
A Chicago federal judge has refused to order a suburban school district to suspend their transgender bathroom policy.
An Illinois Circuit Court judge rejected an attempt to block House Bill 40, which requires Illinois residents to pay for abortions regardless of their moral convictions in the matter.
A four-year-old Chicago boy has done the unthinkable for someone his age, reading 100 books in a single day—and his parents recorded every moment of it.
