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FILE - A Federal Patrol agent's badge is seen near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)
IL State News
4 months ago
Judge’s footnote on immigration agents using AI raises accuracy and privacy concerns

The judge noted factual discrepancies between the official narrative about those law enforcement responses and what body camera footage showed.

Springfield Fire Crews were on the scene Wednesday morning for a fire at the Sangamon Towers apartment complex.
Local
4 months ago
Budzinski intervenes in local housing dispute on behalf of low-income residents

Affordable housing advocates say this type of issue could become more common with proposed HUD cuts.

Deep Dish Pumpkin Pie
Holiday Guide
4 months ago
What happens when pumpkin pie meets deep-dish pizza?

For pumpkin pie, one state stood out: Illinois.

The inventor of Lite-Brite and other children's toys has died.
IL State News
4 months ago
Toy inventor Burt Meyer, who dreamed up Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, dies age 99

Meyer died on Oct. 30, said Rebecca Mathis, executive director at King-Bruwaert House, a retirement community in Burr Ridge, Illinois, where he lived.

FILE - The Rev. Jesse Jackson listens to speakers at the Tabernacle Baptist Church during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, March 9, 2025, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
IL State News
4 months ago
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson leaves hospital after treatment for neurological disorder

A protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the two-time presidential candidate and internationally known founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition was hospitalized Nov. 14.

Agriculture
4 months ago
Deere: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot

The results fell short of Wall Street expectations.

deer
Local
4 months ago
IDNR says 2025 deer harvesting numbers are down a bit

More deer hunting opportunities are to come.

This Illinois State Police squad car was side-swiped Tuesday morning on Interstate 94 in Chicago.
Crime
4 months ago
Another squad car hit by alleged ‘Scott’s Law’ violator –ISP

“Scott’s Law” requires drivers to “move over” for emergency vehicles with flashing lights.

Maternal health
Health & Wellness
4 months ago
State: Most pregnancy-related deaths ‘preventable’

State: Pregnant Blacks more likely to die; substance abuse most common cause.

New, stringent Trump administration rules on federal funding to help provide residences for people without homes could cast them back out onto the street in Chicago and across Illinois. (Credt: Victor Hilitski/Illinois Answers Project file photo)
IL State News
4 months ago
New federal rules could put formerly unhoused people back out on the streets across Illinois

The Trump administration is dramatically cutting the money available to help pay for housing for people in need, including those with mental illness or disabilities.

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