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A group of teens attacked a family of three over a line-cutting dispute during Fright Fest at Six Flags Great America in Illinois, police said.

An American flag display set up by staff at an Illinois high school stirred up controversy on social media. The display at York Community High School in Elmhurst, IL was a re-creation of artist Dread Scott’s “What is the Proper

A new analysis by the Illinois Department of Insurance shows that residents in the state who have insurance through the Obamacare exchange will see rate increases ranging from 16 to 37 percent next year for the lowest-cost plans.

The University of California has sued the Trump administration for its decision to rescind the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.

A think tank in Chicago, Illinois is pleading for more immigration to fill jobs in the cities hospitality industry while African-American youth in the inner-city remains higher than most other cities.

A new law being pushed in Illinois would make it illegal for law enforcement officers to arrest illegal aliens on the basis of their immigration status.

Bruce Rauner, Republican Governor of Illinois, told the local press he may sign a new bill passed by the heavily Democratic Illinois legislature to frustrate federal immigration enforcement.

The Illinois legislature just created a new state commemorative holiday to celebrate the birthday of “favorite son” Barack Obama.

As municipalities in deep-blue Maryland continue to grant legal and illegal aliens access to the ballot box, one leftist is pushing for a larger movement to combat the “mass disenfranchisement” of non-U.S. citizens in the Trump era.

As the state of Illinois edges near becoming the first U.S. state to ever be rated junk bond status, the Democrat-controlled legislature of the bankrupt state of Illinois has just voted to slam its citizens with a hefty 32 percent hike in state income taxes.

Moody’s credit rating service warned on Wednesday that new tax hikes by Illinois’ Democrat-controlled legislature, which over-rode a Republican governor’s veto, may still leave the state insolvent and subject to its debt being the first in the nation to be downgraded to “junk.”

Chicago Public Schools will soon require students graduating from high school to show proof of what they plan to do after graduation.

Illinois lawmakers are rushing to pass a budget to make sure the state avoids a junk credit rating.

As Orange County, Ca. was making its final bankruptcy bond payment to end its 23-year bankruptcy reorganization; Illinois, Connecticut, and Maine went into default shut-downs after failing to pass state budgets before the start of their July 1st fiscal years.

Contents: Voting for statehood will not save Puerto Rico from financial crisis; Puerto Rico plunges into contentious bankruptcy proceedings; Illinois bond rating expected to be cut to junk status

A quick-thinking Illinois man is being heralded a hero after he jumped into a moving car to help the driver who was suffering a seizure. Video from the Dixon, IL Police Department shows a car running a red light at

The Illinois House passed a bill allowing the state to register eligible voters automatically, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration in Chicago launched a pro-immigration, pro-foreign refugee campaign designed to help get newcomers to the U.S. on public services.

The August 21 total solar eclipse will be the first visible across all of the continental United States since March 7, 1970.

A Chicago-area jail went on lockdown Sunday after more than 200 corrections officers called out sick for Mother’s Day, sheriffs said.

The Illinois Senate has passed a bill intended to curtail the powers of federal immigration officials to detain and deport illegal aliens even if they are convicted of a crime. The bill essentially makes Illinois a “sanctuary state.”

President Donald Trump kept the threat of voter fraud on the front pages both before and after the 2016 Election. Although ballots have long since been counted, cases of illegal voting and other election law violations continue to surface in the aftermath.

Puerto Rico’s world-record $116 billion bankruptcy filing represents a massive liability risk for auditors who will likely demand that highly-indebted states — such as Connecticut, Illinois and California — disclose more liabilities, write down assets, and curtail debt issues.

An Illinois couple married for 69 years died just 40 minutes apart while holding hands in their hospital room.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and his wife Diana are listed as $50,000 sponsors of Planned Parenthood of Illinois for an upcoming fundraiser in Chicago.

A Cook County judge was killed and a woman was injured in a shooting that took place in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, police say.

A woman has tracked down the man who saved her son from choking in a Chicago-area Subway restaurant, then took off before she could thank him.

Facing deportation, convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh received a standing ovation at an anti-Israel conference she keynoted this past Sunday, while the families of her victims held a memorial service to mourn the loss of their loved ones at the same Chicago hotel.

A federal judge sentenced an Illinois immigration lawyer who cheated the immigration system to make sure his clients were granted asylum in the U.S. to 15 months in prison Wednesday.

On Tuesday four-year-old Hunter Jackson was suspended for 7 days after bringing an empty .22 shell casing to school to show his friends.

Lawmakers out of Chicago wanted to make Barack Obama’s birthday an Illinois state holiday giving state workers the day off with pay, but the state’s House of Representatives shot the plan down by a scant margin.

A growing list of Democrat challengers have already announced campaigns to replace first-term Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner, and now a fifth candidate has stepped forward.

Schools around the country have decided to take a stand against President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

A Peruvian woman originally hoping to become a naturalized citizen in Illinois now faces deportation after her record of illegal voter registration and casting ballots for federal candidates has come to light.

The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed that eight refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) “during the initial health screening or within 90 days of the refugee arrival” in the four years between 2012 and 2015.

United Van Lines names South Dakota as the state seeing the highest percentage of incoming moves for 2016.