SPRINGFIELD - Because enough California voters signed onto a proposal that would create three separate states with California's current borders,...

By Nancy Thorner -  The Heartland Institute, a conservative and libertarian public policy think tank founded in 1984, held its Third Annual Picnic for Freedom...

By Jane M. Orient, M.D. - Congress recently passed, and President Trump signed, the “Right to Try” bill that gives...

DEERFIELD -  A circuit court judge in Lake County, Illinois granted an injunction this week against the Chicago suburb of...

WASHINGTON - President Trump has indicated he is considering pardoning imprisoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, and Monday Congressman Darin...

CHICAGO - Monday afternoon, a group of Republican lawmakers and candidates led by State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) called for...

CHICAGO - Are politicians in Springfield accused of sex discrimination and harassment victims or offenders? Last week, yet more Springfield...

COOK COUNTY - Ninety out of 132 Cook County municipalities have now embraced video gambling at their liquor-serving establishments, but...

BURBANK - Discriminating against a church cost the Chicago suburb of Burbank nearly half a million dollars, the church's legal...

CHICAGO - Close enough to Illinois' Republican incumbent Governor Bruce Rauner to have served on Rauner's 2013 exploratory committee, retired...