FIRST IN POLITICO: Rahm Emanuel has tapped retired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, who led U.S. naval operations before she was fired ...

Kristi Noem created a firestorm in Springfield on Wednesday by invoking the name of Emma Shafer to criticize the Pritzker ...

American Place continues to draw customers from northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and elsewhere in Chicagoland.

A Bristol Township man, the driver in a fatal shooting, is to spend more than 21 years in state prison. But the alleged ...

After struggling for years to gain enough bipartisan support to tighten the state’s bail laws, Texas Republicans appear ...

A woman who police say lied to cover for her husband in a deadly traffic wreck is under investigation for more serious charges.

Sharpe James began as a reformer. A fiery community organizer from Newark’s South Ward who was evangelistic about what good government should be and how it could be used to resuscitate his city, he ...

Donald Blakeslee, who sometimes suffers the slings and arrows of fellow scientists, has yet another dazzling Native American story to tell about the ancient Quivira culture that he says was central to ...

Five Venezuelan migrants, all male juveniles residing in Chicago, have been charged with stealing from two Oak Brook stores. All five juveniles appeared at detention hearings May 6 where Judge ...

Fellow judges have elected Judge Christopher Jon Lehmann to serve as chief judge of Minnesota’s First Judicial District for a two-year term, the Minnesota Judicial Branch announced on Monday. Lehmann, ...