Several deep blue states have moved to extend healthcare to illegal aliens, but costs have exploded and enrollments have raced far past the numbers lawmakers expected, causing budget disasters across the board.
A look at the data from Illinois public schools for 2024 finds that not a single child rated proficient in math in 80 schools.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told an audience of Democrats in New Hampshire on Sunday that they should take up mass protests against President Donald Trump and Republicans, denying them any “moment of peace.”
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a left-wing Democrat who has represented the 9th congressional district of Illinois since 1999, will reportedly announce her retirement next month at the age of 80.
Democrat dominated Illinois has become the next left-wing state to defy Trump’s rules banning transgender athletes from girl’s sports.
An Illinois high school track athlete suffered a horrific and life-altering injury while preparing for triple-jump competition last month.
Police officers and a neighbor in Christopher, Illinois, are being praised for rushing to the aid of a firefighter when a home collapsed.
An Illinois special education teacher charged with molesting her 15 year-old student said she was blackmailed by the victim due to her “good” looks.
2028 hopeful Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) is doing an about-face by excluding older illegal migrants from a budget-busting healthcare program.
State Rep. Lisa Davis (D-IL) introduced a bill that would make “having a mental health episode” a defense for “aggravated battery” against a peace officer in certain circumstances.
A state audit found taxpayers in Gov. JB Pritzker’s (D) Illinois paid out a whopping $1.6 billion for healthcare programs for illegal immigrants since 2020.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) garnered a miserable 6.6 percent favorability in a poll of hundreds of residents of his city.
A former professional hockey player, who is a youth hockey coach in the Chicago area, is accused of possessing child pornography.
Illinois is decidedly divided on the question of immigration,and much of the state is chafing against the support for illegal migrants imposed by Chicago, the governor, and the state Democrat Party.
Former top Illinois Democrat Michael Madigan has been found guilty on ten counts in a federal corruption trial Wednesday.
White County Resident Circuit Judge T. Scott Webb ruled against a requirement that Illinois residents must obtain an Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card in order to possess a gun in the home for self-defense.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) has brought in an Illinois consulting firm headed by a far-left politician who took part in a George Soros-funded mayors’ program, appointed his city’s first chief equity officer, and signed a resolution to recognize that his city’s land was stolen from Native Americans by “white colonizers” to help the post-fire recovery process.
On Friday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Now,” Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez stated that claims from Illinois officials that their sanctuary policies don’t block the federal government from going after dangerous criminals are inaccurate. Lopez stated, “The rhetoric doesn’t match reality, whether
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) discussed the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois over sanctuary policies and said, “It’s common sense.” “We don’t have any sanctuary cities along the border
A bill up for consideration in the Illinois General Assembly would change the state’s legal drinking age.
Hundreds of ducks have been found sick or dead along Lake Michigan in Chicago, and it is possible the bird flu is to blame.
Tiffany Henyard, the mayor of Dolton, Illinois, was seen on video joining in a physical brawl between her boyfriend and an angry activist who called her a “half-assed mayor” and a “b*tch” who “f*ck[ed] her way to the top” at a recent town board meeting.
Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” warned the Trump administration that his local law enforcement “will stand up for those law-abiding, undocumented people” facing deportation.
Oregon’s top Democrats are planning a wide-ranging campaign to obstruct President Donald Trump’s popular immigration reform.
Automaker Stellantis is set to reopen its assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois, and ramp up production in Detroit, Michigan, after its chairman met with President Donald Trump just ahead of his Monday inauguration.
A frantic nine-hour search for a young Illinois girl, who was allegedly abducted by teenagers when they reportedly stole the vehicle she was in, ended in a miracle when the four-year-old was found abandoned in an alley but safe.
A family in Crystal Lake, Illinois, is elated after their beloved dog who went missing was found thanks to help from modern technology.
A man remodeling his childhood home recently found an incredible treasure in the wall that was forgotten for 46 years.
Several Illinois school districts will be receiving millions in federal grant dollars to purchase electric school buses to replace gas-powered ones, Board of Education officials said.
A group of 11 Chicago area teenagers have been hit with felony charges, including hate crimes, after allegedly using dating apps to lure and beat two men in an act inspired by a social media trend, police said.
Governors of deep blue states are scrambling to craft their narrative to Donald Trump’s popular deportation message, with varying results.
Kim Foxx, the disgraced George Soros-backed Cook County prosecutor who was chased out of office in Chicago, has lost her license to practice law in the state of Illinois.
A surprise donation found inside a Salvation Army Red Kettle in Wheaton, Illinois, will help many people this Christmas.
As part of his flood of pardons, President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Illinois official Rita Crundwell, who was found guilty in 2013 of the worst embezzling of government funds in U.S. history.
Bed company Sleep Number is being sued because an elderly Illinois woman died after becoming trapped in between her bed and the wall for two days in March 2023.
Trump’s incoming border czar, Tom Homan, appeared in Chicago and delivered a shot across the bow to leaders of the sanctuary city and state.
Incoming border czar Tom Homan is warning sanctuary states and cities that opposing Donald Trump’s deportation agenda will lead to “the exact result you don’t want” and added that Trump’s policy will make the country “safer for everybody.”
During a city council meeting this week, residents in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, urged President-elect Donald Trump and his border czar, Thomas Homan, to arrest Mayor Brandon Johnson should he try to stop their plan to deport illegal aliens.
Democrats have begun to morph their stance on illegal aliens from protecting them all to agreeing that “criminals” should be deported.
Illinois has the worst public employee pension shortfall in the country, even worse than the more populous California.
