Business
4 days ago
Illinois Capital Development Board Receives Merit Award from ACEC

The Illinois Capitol Development Board is Honored to Receive this highly respectable merit.

Gov. JB Pritzker, lawmakers and immigration advocates discuss the federal government’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign in his Springfield office on Oct. 30, 2025.
IL State News
5 days ago
Pritzker ramps up accountability panel focused on alleged ICE abuses

New appointments come as federal immigration raids ease in Chicago.

Democratic candidates for comptroller from left are Lake County Treasurer Holly Kim; Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego; Sen. Karina Villa, D-West Chicago; and Rep. Margaret Croke, D-Chicago. (Illustration and photos by Capitol News Illinois)
IL State News
5 days ago
Comptroller candidates spar over taxes, experience in candidate forum

5 Democrats are seeking to replace outgoing Comptroller Susana Mendoza.

Pope Leo XIV and Gov. JB Pritzker meet in the Vatican on Nov. 19, 2025. (The Vatican)
IL State News
5 days ago
Pritzker discusses immigration crackdown with Pope Leo XIV in Rome

The governor also extended an invitation to the Chicago-born pontiff to visit his hometown.

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Crime
5 days ago
IL Supreme Court: Grayson conviction means pre-trial release ‘moot’

Supreme Court: Conviction trumps release appeal.

Health & Wellness
5 days ago
Lung cancer: be aware

The message: get screened.

Business
5 days ago
Largest US landlord to pay $7 million to settle rent‑setting algorithm lawsuit

The states that are part of the settlement include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon and Tennessee.

This still image taken from Chicago Transit Authority surveillance footage and included in a federal court record shows a man who federal authorities identified as Lawrence Reed holding a flaming bottle and approaching a passenger, far left, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, on a Chicago Blue Line train. (Chicago Transit Authority/U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois via AP) Screenshot
Crime
5 days ago
Federal terrorism charge filed against a man who allegedly set a woman on fire on Chicago train

The 26-year-old woman fought off the man as he tried to ignite the gas, then she ran from one end of the car to the other as Reed chased her, an investigator said in the affidavit, citing surveillance video from the train.

U.S. Border Patrol Commander at large Gregory Bovino looks on, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)
IL State News
5 days ago
Appeals court pauses order restricting use of force by immigration agents in Chicago-area crackdown

But the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also cautioned against “overreading” its stay and said a quick appeal process could lead to a “more tailored and appropriate” order.