After several years of decline, the population is increasing, helped by immigration, while outbound migration slows.

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

In a news conference marking 100 days in office, Gordon said the increase in requests for birth certificates and marriage ...

An Illinois lawmaker has introduced a bill that critics say will make it legal for anyone experiencing a mental health episode to attack police officers. Democratic state Rep. Lisa Davis, an attorney ...

Seven mostly Republican counties here voted last November to consider splitting off from their state, bringing to 33 the number that have voted to investigate leaving Illinois — almost a third of the ...

The Chicago metropolitan area and Cook County both saw slight increases in population according to the most recent estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, as international immigration outpaced domestic ...

Pulaski Day will be observed on Monday, March 3. Chicago and Cook County government offices and courts will be closed.

John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell were teenagers when they were coerced into giving false confessions in a 2003 murder in ...

A judge ordered a pair of landlords to pay $80,000 to tenants they had threatened to call immigration enforcement on amid a rent dispute in 2020.

HOLLAND, Mich. — The Holland Police Department assisted authorities from Illinois in arresting a person suspected in ...

An Illinois lawmaker has introduced a bill that critics say will make it legal for anyone experiencing a mental health episode to attack police officers.