Lawmakers have filed more than 11,400 bills and resolutions since the current General Assembly started in January 2025.

Amakuni turned humiliation into mastery. He let failure teach him, harden him and drive him forward until the thing that once shamed him became the thing that set him apart.

Some of the worst killers had what our society generally considers the “best minds.”

As the Bears stadium bill advances in the Illinois House, state Rep. Kam Buckner faces pushback from the governor's office and Senate Democrats over surprise changes to the deal.

Anti-violence might be my deepest held personal position. But that comes from understanding how much we actually have normalized the scourge.

Illinois State Senator Patrick Joyce, D-Essex, discusses the recovery from the storms that struck Kankakee County, and other things he has going on down in Springfield.

A family of 30 wakes before dawn to travel to Indiana for a wedding — and discovers what matters most in the journey.

In this week's column, Dennis Marek wonders how the framers of U.S. Constitution in 1775 would view the court's actions and the role of the Executive Branch plays in rulings today.

The $28 trillion problem: How to fix America's spending and health care crisis at once.