The number of living Purple Heart, Medal of Honor, or POW Medal recipients in Illinois for fiscal year 2017 was 2,869.

Members of Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime (AVIAC), a nationwide grassroots group that includes a number of Illinois residents, are in Washington D.C. this week, lobbying Congress for change – including closing loopholes that allow some alleged offenders, who are here illegally, to escape prosecution.

U.S. residents enrolled at Illinois institutions of higher learning face among the steepest cost of attending four-year in-state colleges and universities in the U.S., according to an analysis of federal data.

Community volunteers trained in the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program to exercise their training September 21

State income tax revenues in Illinois represent 19 percent of its total state and local levies, according to a new study by the Tax Foundation.

Illinois Payrolls Remain Stable, with 65,000 More Jobs than a Year Ago

An Illinois pro-life leader said that he was encouraged that Will County authorities turned the investigation into more than 2,200 aborted remains discovered in abortion provider’s Ulrich Klopfer’s garage over to the Indiana Attorney General.

The Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs (IDVA) today announced negative test results for Legionella bacteria at the Illinois Veterans Home at Manteno (IVHM), where it responded to a single case of Legionnaires' disease on August 30.

Program begins October 1, 2019 and runs until November 15, 2019

Financial decay is happening at all levels of Illinois state government, according to the president of state news aggregation and research site Wirepoints.

The City Club of Chicago held a panel last week to discuss the state's pension crisis and how to fix it.

Governor JB Pritzker has appointed Oswaldo Alvarez and Marishonta Wilkerson to lead the state's effort to ensure an accurate and complete 2020 Census count for the state of Illinois.

Illinois residents attending four-year schools pay the highest in-state tuition at University of Chicago, Northwestern University and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, according to an analysis of federal data.

On January 21, 2016, we broke the story regarding Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino’s legislative campaign spending.

Imagine the disappointment of getting ready to put on civilian clothes and walk out the prison gate and then being told, “Oh, never mind.”

Illinois finished 26th lowest in the size of its state and local government operations, based on their share of the state’s gross domestic product, according to a 24/7 Wall St. analysis.

The state’s coal mining industry is not showing any signs of slowing down, according to the Illinois Coal Association.

September is Life Insurance Awareness Month; If you think an insurance company failed to pay after a loved one passed on, the Illinois Department of Insurance is here to help.

The funded ratio of the Illinois public pension plans stands at 38%, according to a new analysis from the Tax Foundation based on fiscal-year 2017 data.

The family of 39-year-old Corey Cottrell, the Normal resident who was struck and killed in June by a van allegedly driven by, Jose Rodriguez, who was in the country illegally, is alarmed that a plea deal could be in the works in the hit-and-run case.