The Democrat, who resides in Matteson in Cook County, traveled a bit farther south Thursday afternoon to speak at a town hall meeting in Eastern Illinois University's Phipps Auditorium.

Illinois agencies can do more to procure contracts with Black-owned businesses, especially the Department of Corrections.

Like many college towns, the area around the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been transformed by a surge of ...

The University of Illinois’ Board of Trustees and individual administrators are facing a lawsuit claiming they fired a Black program director after he advocated for program participants and staff who ...

All four major sports reaching postseason play — and three of four notching either a bowl game or NCAA tournament win — was a ...

With two members of the ComEd Four scheduled to be sentenced next week, Illinois Democrats and Republicans differ on the need for energy-related ethics reform. Sentencing ...

More track and field success, the same on the basketball court and a breakout season on the football field led the way for ...

Coach Bret Bielema has Illinois crashing the Big Ten blueblood recruiting party with his work in the 2026 recruiting class.