The first snowfall of the season in the forecast for this week. Illinois Department of Transportation offers these winter driving tips, including don't follow snow plows too closely.

What policies would you support to ease the burden on Illinois taxpayers? Gabby Shanahan: To provide real relief, we need to enact comprehensive spending reform to ensure taxpayer dollars are used efficiently and effectively.

How would you assess the SAFE-T Act? Are there any changes/adjustments that you would like to see made? Candidate Jim Lanham: Some additional offenses need to be added to offenses not eligible for cashless bail.

Illinois State Police Troop 3 Commander Capt. Patrick Manno announced the results of roadside safety checks held in Cook, DuPage, Kane and Will counties

Union objects to 'abrupt transfer' of inmates, threat to jobs as current Stateville facility to be demolished while new one is constructed,

A federal judge is ordering Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration to move the vast majority of those incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet out of the aging prison by the end of September, citing health and safety concerns posed by the facility.