In rural Kansas in 1959, two recently paroled ex-cons attempted to rob a well-to-do farmer, believing he kept large amounts of cash in the family home. Frustrated that there was little of value in the ...

A bill to redraw the Indiana-Illinois border received initial approval Monday in an Indiana House committee, but the discussion opened up a Pandora’s box, with some of its Illinois supporters ...

The eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) at the Bryon Forest Preserve District’s Bald Hill Prairie Preserve had just been named the Illinois state champion tree. It stayed with me enough that ...

A measure aimed at allowing Indiana to absorb 33 counties in Illinois that have voted in recent years to leave the state has cleared its first legislative hurdle, but the effort faces a major ...

Scott Applewhite/AP Michael Madigan, the longest-serving state House speaker in Illinois history, was found guilty Wednesday on 10 counts of federal corruption, including bribery. The jury said ...

House Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, appears to be entirely serious about his idea for Indiana to negotiate with Illinois about the Hoosier State absorbing up to 33 Illinois counties whose voters ...

Illinois has flown the same flag – featuring the Great Seal on a white background – since it was first adopted more than 100 years ago, according to the Illinois Flag Commission’s website.

Among the Illinois-based programs affected by Trump’s order to halt funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, and other foreign aid programs are a lab at the ...

On a night when a legendary Illinois big man was honored for his contributions to the program and a current Illini big man was the driving force in a potentially season-shifting win, it wouldn't ...

When you think about states with high taxes, Illinois may not immediately come to mind. However, the Prairie State has one of the highest sales tax rates in the U.S., some of the highest property ...

The governor headlined a gathering of 1,200 delegates with the Illinois Education Association, holding the audience rapt with one-liners. He called Trump’s allies “bootlickers” and referred ...

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday moved to challenge a law recently enacted in Democratic-led Illinois that seeks to encourage greater diversity in the nonprofit sector by requiring ...