As the red velvet curtains at the Vatican parted, a priest realized that his college pal from the South Side of Chicago that ...

Two state-run health care programs that extend Medicaid-like coverage to noncitizens may have provided significant financial ...

As news spread about the news that an American had been chosen to be the new pope, a first in the 2,000-year history of the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the American Robert Prevost, said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace ...

Gov. JB Pritzker issued an executive order Wednesday that bars state agencies from collecting and disclosing data about ...

A Pekin man faces up to life in prison after being indicted this week by a federal grand jury for trying to entice a minor to ...

An unhoused camp in Normal near the AutoZone on W. Virginia Avenue needs to be cleared by June 1 for two upcoming sewer ...

Mother’s Day is just days away, and the Kiwanis Club of Bloomington is hosting its annual Mother’s Day flower sale.

A former federal inmate at Pekin’s federal prison was indicted this week for allegedly beating another man to death in 2023 ...

A federal judge in New York issued a preliminary order Tuesday blocking the Trump administration from cutting off states’ ...

U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi is the latest Democrat to enter the 2026 U.S. Senate primary for retiring Sen. Dick Durbin’s ...

The Real ID deadline is here, and airports in central Illinois and across the U.S. have started to enforce this policy.