Illinois In Focus Daily | Monday Dec. 1st, 2025 Greg Bishop, Illinois editor for The Center Square, hosts Illinois In Focus ...

Nearly 1,000 households displaced by catastrophic wildfires in Maui are anxiously awaiting word on whether federal assistance ...

U.S. officials have granted a request to extend housing assistance for survivors of catastrophic 2023 wildfires, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Friday. Nearly 1,000 households ...

Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced ...

Illinois parents and child care providers are concerned that a federal funding freeze could disrupt child care and social service programs for thousands of families in the state, which they argue is ...

With a court-ordered pause on a federal funding freeze set to expire this week, local governments in five states face the ...

Renters and some city leaders argue the building's owner carries a history of leaving residents to fend for themselves.

Affordability will be a key political theme of the coming Illinois General Assembly as leaders signal proposals from health ...

Nearly a billion federal taxpayer dollars for child care and family assistance programs is being withheld from the state of Illinois.

The Trump Administration’s drastic and unprecedented effort to freeze funding for families’ child care and other essential ...

McCracken County Judge Executive Craig Clymer declared a state of emergency Friday ahead of a winter storm expected to impact the area over the weekend.