Addison Township voters at the April 1 election will tell state lawmakers where they stand on legislative map gerrymandering ...

Wheeling Township voters will have a chance to weigh in on Illinois state lawmakers imposing unfunded mandates. After the ...

The first three years of elementary school are critical in building reading skills so a student succeeds in school and life.

Palatine Township voters will take up some of the state’s most urgent issues at the April 1 election, telling state lawmakers ...

Job growth was healthy across the nation in November with a gain of 227,000. Illinois’ metropolitan areas lost 3,400, with ...

Day means hundreds of new laws on the books, including one allowing residents to get a digital version of their driver’s ...

Nearly 9 in 10 of the Illinois job losses announced in November resulted from businesses closing. Chicago led the state for ...

After getting his start in the Cabrini Green public housing development, Joel Hamernick has spent 30 years working with gangs ...

Voters in Lemont Township are taking up the pension crisis, gerrymandering and unfunded mandates. The township voted to put ...

Illinois makes some of the largest pension contributions of any state to fund its systems. According to Wirepoints research, the annual average growth rate of Illinois pension assets was 5.5% from ...

The total share of crimes attributed to gangs also declined steadily during the past two decades, dropping from 2.9% of all crimes in 2004 to 0.7%. A 30-year veteran of Chicago gun violence ...

Government unions posed threats to public welfare that were recognized by founders of the labor movement and by progressive icon Franklin D. Roosevelt. Those threats have become reality, with ...