Advocates and people incarcerated at the prison have long called facility conditions there dire.

The law, which goes into effect Monday, helps protect minors used in social media videos. Its passage was spurred by children of the social media age who want better digital protection laws.

“We've never ever given up the right to exist,” says Native scholar Megan Bang, who helped move the law forward.

Between electric vehicles and all-electric buildings, electrification has emerged as a leading tool in the fight against climate change. But if we start to plug everything into the grid, where does th...

Students at Northern Illinois University join thousands across the country to protest the war in Gaza.

Participants in the Gaza solidarity protest encampment at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recount their experiences holding their ground.

Report from Carbondale, Illinois on recent march and demonstration during the eclipse. On August 21dy, 2017 a total solar eclipse crossed across the continent of North America with the peak of its totality in Makanda, IL 15 mins south of Carbondale, IL. On April 8th, 2024 another total solar eclipse...

Warm weather season means more time spent outdoors. It is also time for ticks to be out more and everywhere. Changes in climate are leading to an increase in the ticks and the potential for unwanted diseases.

Qasim Rashid criticized pro-Israel Rep. Bill Foster for failing to call for a Gaza ceasefire in an Illinois Democratic primary.

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Groups of voters from Illinois and Massachusetts on Thursday filed motions to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, adding to the list of states where the former president faces a challenge to his candidacy under the 14th Amendment’s so-called insurrectionist ban.

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Tracy Pinkham remembers all of it: The way the onions looked slimy and how she woke the next morning with a dry mouth and blurry vision that got worse as the day went on. Her head falling to her sh…

Critics of cash bail as a condition of pretrial release say it is especially unfair to Black people and other people of color.

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The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday upheld the state’s assault-style weapons ban in a 4-3 ruling after months of legal challenges sought to dismantle the law.

Today, the Illinois Supreme Court issued the strongest possible decision finding the Pretrial Fairness Act constitutional and directing courts across the state to implement the law and end the use of money bond on September 18, 2023. This ruling overturns a decision by a Kankakee County judge that s...

The $50.7 billion in base general revenues that the state collected in fiscal year 2023 topped last year’s previous record by $373 million.

The space will be utilized as a typical visitor center with gallery, resource area, educational activities, meeting room, gift shop and archival storage for the preservation of R. Buckminster Fuller documents and artifacts.

When LaCaje Hill was appointed to fill the vacant seat on the Carbondale City Council on Tuesday evening, the council once again made history.

A pandemic-era measure allowing bars and restaurants to sell cocktails to-go has been extended.