The state’s top transportation authority has been running afoul of Illinois’s wildlife regulators according to internal documents obtained by WBEZ and Grist.

Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration is setting rules on two emerging technologies for state workers, joining state governments across the country in trying to stay ahead of rapidly shifting terrain.

A Cook County judge will rule next month on a petition to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate — and possibly charge — alleged abuses by federal immigration agents during the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” mass deportation campaign last fall.

A federal judge has sentenced a metro-east businessman to three years of supervised release, 200 hours of community service and a $9,500 fine for bank fraud as part of a yearslong scheme with his brother-in-law that involved derelict homes.

Two additional official misconduct charges have been filed against a former administrator of the Knox County jail accused of diverting more than $100,000 from the jail commissary account for personal use.

The order signed by Todd Blanche does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under federal law, but changes the way it’s regulated.

Lawmakers emphasized the need for transparency about how much water data centers use to cool their facilities at the final of three data center-focused hearings in the House Executive Committee.

A "millionaire tax" proposal floated in the Illinois House failed to gain enough traction in Springfield this week, making it increasingly unlikely that voters will be asked to approve the measure in November.

Whether those loans, totaling around $8.5 million, were factors in the government shutdown of Metropolitan Bank & Trust in January remains unclear.