Five railroad crossings in Morgan County and dozens of others across the region will be getting safety upgrades under a five-year plan approved this week by the state. More than $400 million from the ...

Some village boards and township boards in northern Illinois will see some new faces following Tuesday's spring elections.

The county brought a close to a year-long celebration of the county's bicentennial by unveiling a new flag to represent it.

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

Voters across multiple Illinois counties will head to the polls on April 1 to cast their ballots on important referenda that ...

That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state flag, a gleaming white banner emblazoned with the state's bald eagle-themed ...

It seems Illinois might not be getting a new state flag after all. Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Thursday more people prefer Illinois' current state flag than any of the proposed ...

Cook County must face an assistant public defender’s claim that it violated her free-speech rights by barring her display of a photograph of her standing with a gun in front of the Israeli flag.

There's about 1,200 bills filed but only some of them will become law. Here, we're tracking the bills that actually progress in the legislature.

Kitty Dukakis, the wife of former Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, has died. She ...