Gov. JB Pritzker has announced the selection former state representative and deputy governor Christian Mitchell as his ...

Gov. JB Pritzker has announced the selection former state representative and deputy governor Christian Mitchell as his ...

As with any politician who chooses a running mate, Pritzker will have to weigh his own ... Pat Quinn in 2009, after then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich was impeached and removed from office. State Rep.

Gov. JB Pritzker acknowledged that President Donald Trump's reelection was a factor in his decision to seek a third term. "I ...

Dennis Rader, the so-called "BTK" (bind, torture, kill) killer, pleaded guilty to 10 slayings in the Wichita, Kan., area. He ...

1986: Hard Rock Cafe opened in Chicago. Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon were among its first guests. TV host Oprah Winfrey attended the opening with Stedman Graham, ...

Ben Collins has overseen the comeback of a print edition of 'The Onion' over the past year and pledges that it will continue ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich's plan to raise big money by privatizing the state lottery raises equally big questions about how, and whether, the idea would work.

Illinois coach Brad Underwood, like every other Division I coach, will have to come to grips with the fallout of the House ...

It’s the most highly anticipated sentencing in a Chicago public corruption case since former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich more than a decade ago, and U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey ...

More than any previous president, Donald Trump has systematically deployed his authority to grant pardons to reward loyalists, assure appointees and associates that they can violate the law with ...