After the quiet and severe reduction of a 60-year immigration assistance program from the U.S. Department of Justice, a social service agency for immigrants in downstate Illinois has been left confused as to what future the program may have.

Advocates, formerly incarcerated speakers and state lawmakers gathered Monday at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters to push the RACE Act, a proposal that would let people in Illinois prisons vote while serving felony sentences and expand civics classes inside correctional facilities.

An appeals court has rejected an appeal by a DCFS worker convicted of failing to protect AJ Freund, the 5-year-old Crystal Lake boy murdered by his mother, saying he had a duty to protect the child.

Farmers across Illinois are pushing for legislation that would expand estate tax exemptions, citing concerns that long-held family farms are becoming increasingly difficult to inherit due to rising costs.

The family of a Stephen Mack Middle School student who was hit by a car while attempting to board a school bus accepts a $52 million settlement.

For decades, Illinois law has limited families to two primary options when a loved one dies: burial or cremation.

Samuel Cundari was sentenced to home confinement and supervised release after pleading guilty to making threatening posts on X directed at the children of two state lawmakers, gun control groups, and the Illinois attorney general’s office.

An Illinois appeals court has thrown out convictions in a Fulton County drug case because potential jurors weren’t asked during the selection process whether they understood the suspect’s rights.