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A new law in Illinois allows residents to apply to vote by mail permanently.

The governor made a brief stop in downtown Macomb to rally fellow Democrats in advance of this fall's elections.

The centers will be in Beardstown and Springfield, and there are plans to open centers in Monmouth and Peoria too.

Thousands of Donald Trump supporters attended the sweltering rally outside of Quincy on Saturday.

Donald Trump’s endorsement could end up being a big factor in the bitter primary fight for reelection between Miller and Davis.

GOP rivals echo the political strategy Pritzker used to unseat Bruce Rauner in 2018, but some say COVID-19 and Legionnaires outbreaks are not equal.

In Rica Rountree's case, mandated reporters alerted the state’s child welfare agency of potential serious abuse. They sounded the alarm bell repeatedly, only to have those alarms ignored or not thoroughly investigated by the agency tasked with doing so. Instead, the investigator who mishandled Rica’s case was promoted.

Two students, one high schooler and one middle schooler, sit down to talk about what school's been like the past two years

A leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion raises the possibility that Roe V Wade will be overturned after nearly five decades. That has Illinois lawmakers, providers, legal groups and advocates strategizing about what they will do if abortion rights are no longer the law of the land. With the projection of a court sealing Roe’s fate, 26 states are expected to ban abortion, and many of them surround Illinois.

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin held a rare press conference Monday that turned into repeated questions about the possibility of overturning Roe v. Wade.