CHICAGO – For most of his adult working life, Tim Mapes only had one boss: former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. And for the more than 25 years he served as Madigan’s chief of staff, Mapes ...

Article Summary After Illinois lifted its moratorium on construction of new nuclear power plants, Gov. JB Pritzker instructed state agencies ...

About half of the staff of 524 employees will be laid off at the Choate Mental Health and Development Center in southern Illinois amid operational changes. The Illinois Department of Human Services ...

Prosecutors charged two Venezuelan dentists with operating an unlicensed dental practice out of a Granite City home. Idania Moreno-Paal worked as a dentist in Venezuela, then came to the United States ...

A recent executive order by Gov. JB Pritzker set a new goal to begin development on new nuclear power plants by 2033, with the intention of bringing online enough energy to power up to two million ...

Australian biotechnology company to invest $1.5 billion by 2031 to expand Kankakee plasma-processing facility. The expansion will create 300 skilled jobs, plus 800 in construction for the site. JB ...

IDHS says it inadvertently stored protected health information on a publicly accessible website involving more than 32,000 Division of Rehabilitation Services customers and more than 672,600 Medicaid ...

A new Illinois law allows police to remove squatters from a person’s home for criminal trespassing. State law previously required property owners to go through a lengthy eviction process in court to ...

MOORE’S SUMMARY: Gov. JB Pritzker said on Wednesday that House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch has “a responsibility to be utterly and completely transparent” about his handling of sexual harassment ...

JB Pritzker said he hasn’t seen video of a Jan. 4 police shooting that left an unarmed woman dead after a traffic stop in a vehicle that was reported stolen. The St. Clair County state’s attorney ...

MOORE’S SUMMARY: Jessica Dixon Heitman was appointed to complete the term of former Rep. Harry Benton, D-Plainfield, and replace him on the November ballot. She beat out six other challengers to ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Another member of the House Democratic caucus appears to have been excommunicated. Multiple sources told Capitol News Illinois that state Rep. Harry Benton, D-Plainfield, has been ...