URBANA — A lawsuit filed by a former Champaign police officer against the city's police chief and NAACP president has been dismissed. Champaign...

Illinois lawmakers and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner were trying to craft a short-term budget deal Wednesday to ensure public schools open this fall and...

Residents in Williamsville and Sherman were under a boil order Wednesday morning after a water main break was discovered.Several residents reported having...

Illinois lawmakers are poised to vote Thursday on a K-12 school budget that will allow schools to open on time this fall and a six-month stopgap spending plan for a variety of other programs to keep state services operating through the end of the year.The...

Next month will mark the third anniversary of the murder of 78-year-old Norma Lipskis of Rochester.Unfortunately, Sangamon County sheriff's detectives have not determined a motive or identified a suspect in the crime. They are hoping that the case's inclu...

JACKSONVILLE -- A boil order was lifted Wednesday, and the city's water emergency could end as soon as noon Thursday if all goes well with water line pressure testing and people continuing to conserve water.That's according to Jacksonville and Morgan Coun...

For the second time this week, a woman was struck by gunfire on Springfield's east side. The woman, 33, was shot in the lower left leg about 9 p.m. Tuesday, police said.The shooting comes two days after Nelra Michelle Broomfield, 40, of Springfield was ki...

CINCINNATI -- Anthony Rizzo legged out his first inside-the-park homer on Wednesday - another unusual moment in a series full of oddities - and the Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds 9-2 for a three-game sweep that got them back on solid footing after ...

Lawmakers are back in Springfield today to try again to hammer out a budget agreement. Follow the latest developments.

Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" featured Illinois' messed-up budget situation in a six-minute segment aired on Tuesday night's show. "Daily Show" correspondent Jordan Klepper followed up on a piece he did last fall about the state n...