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Critic of embattled Dolton, Illinois mayor sees business destroyed by ‘suspicious’ fire: officials
Illinois authorities are investigating a "suspicious" fire that destroyed a local business belonging to a vocal critic of an ...
Illinois' most endangered buildings list includes Bernie Mac's high school, a Frank Lloyd Wright home
The 10 buildings on the 2025 endangered list "all celebrate cultural heritage" Landmarks Illinois CEO Bonnie McDonald said.
Driver who killed 4 by smashing through an Illinois after-school camp may have had health emergency
Police say the driver of a car that barreled through a building used for a popular after-school camp in central Illinois, ...
Former Illinois Governor George Ryan dies at age 91; served prison time for corruption
Former Illinois Governor George Ryan has died at the age of 91. Former Republican State Rep. Jim Durkin confirmed Ryan's ...
Trump AmeriCorps cuts include grant terminations for $12 million in Illinois programs
The AmeriCorps grant terminations have affected 25 of 33 Illinois grantees, according to the Illinois Department of Human ...
Driver in crash that killed 4 in Illinois had 'seizure of some type', attorney says
Illinois State Police are investigating evidence of a potential medical emergency in a fatal crash that killed four at a camp ...
Driver in Chatham, Illinois, crash that killed 4 at after-school program not intoxicated, police say
Illinois State Police said the driver who crashed into a building housing an after-school program in Chatham, Illinois, ...
Illinois ranks 20th in the nation for hospital safety, with more hospitals getting A’s and D’s
Leapfrog bases its grades on 22 safety measures, including death rates among surgical patients with serious but treatable ...
George Ryan, Illinois Governor Who Halted Prison Executions, Dies at 91
A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...
Plainfield, Illinois landlord Joseph Czuba gets 53 years in prison for hate crime murder of 6-year-old boy
A Plainfield landlord has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for the Islamophobic hate crime murder of a ...
From hero of the anti-death penalty movement to felon, former Illinois Gov. George Ryan dead at 91
George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, Illinoia House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, ...