PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Department of Justice is suing Chicago, the state of Illinois and Cook County over sanctuary city policies. In the 23-page lawsuit just filed Thursday morning in Chicago ...

Suscol Intertribal Council has worked to create a place for Napa’s original inhabitants, the Native American population, in ...

Democrats continue to hold a supermajority in the House thanks to illegally gerrymandered House districts, House Republicans ...

The lawsuit comes after House Republicans failed to gain seats in the two election cycles since a new map was drawn in 2021 ...

ILLINOIS – The movement among Illinois counties to separate from Chicago and Cook County to form a new state continues to grow. Those for separating point to things like high taxes and a ...

The Trump administration sued officials in Illinois, Chicago, and Cook County on Thursday over policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement authorities, accusing them of ...

Republicans argue the map is an example of “extreme partisan gerrymandering,” which renders it unconstitutional under state law.

Indiana has looked at adding 33 counties from Illinois that signaled they want to leave the state - which could lead to whole new maps of the ... separating from Cook County to form a new state ...

Last July, Sonya Massey called 911 to report a potential prowler outside her Illinois home. Two minutes after entering, Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson, who is White, fatally shot ...

The Republican leader of the Illinois House and five Illinois voters have filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to ...

Iroquois County’s vote was some 72%, and Calhoun County’s near 76%. Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston says the Illinois counties would be more than welcome to come on over. On Jan. 14 the ...