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Students at Southern Illinois University (SIU) are now demanding a “sanctuary campus” policy that will shield not only students from federal immigration laws, but also “their families, and related community members,” according to a letter sent to the university’s administration.

An Illinois woman granted her dying best friend’s final wish by adopting her four children.

A Democratic Illinois lawmaker wants to keep his state from contracting with companies that would help construct a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Illinois Democrat Tammy Duckworth has unseated first-term Republican Sen. Mark Kirk in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A federal appeals court on Sunday opened the door for construction to resume on a small stretch of the four-state Dakota Access pipeline while it considers an appeal by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Four robbers who planned to rob a pizza delivery boy after ordering delivery to an abandoned house were in for a surprise when a former NFL linebacker showed up with the pie instead.

The latest poll from Emerson College shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by only six points in Illinois, where Barack Obama won by over 16 points against Mitt Romney in 2012. Emerson has the race at Clinton 45%, Trump 39% in

The U.S. government moved on Friday to halt a controversial oil pipeline project in North Dakota that has angered Native Americans, blocking construction on federal land and asking the company behind the project to suspend work nearby.

Amid violent protests and vandalism from a presidential candidate, a Native American tribe has lost a court battle to block the construction of a new energy pipeline.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — North Dakota authorities are recruiting law enforcement officers from across the state to guard the site of a protest in anticipation of an impending federal ruling on whether to block the construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline.

The Green Party Presidential Nominee faces criminal charges after allegedly vandalizing construction equipment at an energy pipeline site with hundreds of other protesters.

A longstanding protest against a Texas-based energy company’s plan to build a pipeline near tribal lands in North Dakota turned violent against construction crews and a limited security team over the Labor Day weekend.

Various videos and local reports have confirmed that “hundreds” of Native American protesters and supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux turned violent at a construction site under the management of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners near Cannon Ball, ND. The Associated Press reported that four private security guards and two dogs were injured in the incident as a result, according to the Morton County Sherriff’s Office. Though protesters have asserted through a variety of mediums that they were the ones first attacked, many of their own videos purport to show the opposite occurred.

One of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction and mining equipment is laying off another 300 Illinois workers as part of a larger shuttering of facilities in the U.S., Belgium, and Ireland, the company announced.

On August 23, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner (R) signed a gun control bill aimed at reducing the record gun violence currently witnessed in the city of Chicago.

Federal prosecutors in Illinois are asking for the maximum 30-year sentence for a former U.S. Army National Guard soldier who pleaded guilty to a plot to travel overseas and use his military training to fight on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

President Obama’s home state of Illinois is abandoning the Common Core-aligned PARCC test for high school students.

TEL AVIV – An Arab American girl’s horrific story of being forced by her mother to become a teen bride to an older Palestinian older man and her subsequent escape back to the U.S. has gone viral.

Delegates to the Illinois GOP convention are retaining a plank in the party’s platform that defines marriage to be between a man and a woman.

Illinois parents are suing the Obama administration over its insistence that the 1964 federal Title IX education rules requires schools to impose pro-transgender bathroom and locker room policies on all their students.

Illinois drivers will pay mileage taxes to raise revenue for major construction projects, if a proposal from the president of Illinois’s Senate, Sen. John Cullerton, gets his way.

President Barack Obama declined to say whether he voted for Hillary Clinton or Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary in Illinois. Obama was asked about his vote by the Wall Street Journal’s Carol Lee, but he did not appear willing

Following the release of March 15 Republican presidential primary election results, Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund Chairman Jenny Beth Martin commented on candidate Sen. Ted Cruz’s position in the race.

Heading toward the March 22 Republican presidential preference election in Arizona, Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz for president.

As pivotal March 15 primary results continue to roll in, 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz is looking at a second-place finish in Illinois just one day after a five-city campaign blitz that brought out massive crowds.

GOP presidential hopeful and Texas Ted Cruz greeted a hometown crowd on this third big night in the 2016 Republican presidential race.

One day before critical March 15 primary elections in five states, 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz amassed crowds totaling thousands as he made five campaign stops in Rockford, Glen Ellyn, Peoria, Decatur, and Springfield, Illinois.

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz announced endorsements from more than 100 Missouri and Florida pastors and faith leaders on Monday, just ahead of Tuesday’s primary elections contests.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is holding five rallies across Illinois on Monday in the lead-up to its Super Tuesday vote tomorrow. Although the latest polls show Trump with a lead in Illinois, the Cruz rallies highlight the superior ground effort of his campaign.

New poll results released on Sunday for the big March 15 primary elections show Donald Trump on top in Florida and home-state Senator Marco Rubio struggling for second place. Ohio’s Gov. John Kasich is just ahead of Trump in his

Chicago’s far-left political groups failed to shut down a Donald Trump rally in Bloomington, Illinois, despite their initial hopes.

In an ironic twist of political correctness, the University of Illinois has now felt it necessary to warn students and faculty that its sexual harassment training might feature “triggering” words or images that might “upset” people.

Barrington High School has apologized after students took part in a mock slave auction over the weekend.

When he left Illinois for Congress in 1997, 15th District Congressman John Shimkus said he would limit himself to only a handful of terms. But ten years into his tenure in office, Congressman Shimkus suddenly realized he was no longer a supporter of term limits. He has been in office ever since.

Hillary Clinton is in Chicago on Wednesday to court the minority vote and use the suicide of a young black woman in a Texas jail to do so. The mother of Sandra Bland is expected to join her at the rally in a Bronzeville, Illinois, neighborhood.

Barack Obama returned to the scene of his national political debut nine years ago, but he excluded the public from a speech where he choose to scold his former home state and the nation on how to “build a better politics.”

Illinois still doesn’t have a budget, the state has practically defaulted on millions in payments to service providers, can’t even pay its lottery winners, but state Democrats have introduced a bill that would make Barack Obama’s birthday a “state holiday” — meaning state workers would have yet another paid holiday added to their generous benefits.