A registered sex offender from Chicago was denied pre-trial release in the western suburbs Sunday after his first court appearance following charges that include solicitation ...

In 2025, almost 300 new Illinois or Chicago-area laws have gone into effect, including pay transparency for jobs, easier gym ...

Illinois State Police is investigating two separate traffic crashes in DuPage and Cook counties over the holiday weekend, ...

An Illinois law that took effect on Jan. 1, 2025, places restrictions on dental practices arranging third-party patient financing for their ...

From new insurance mandates to an expansion of Illinois' anti-discrimination law to include reproductive history, here's a ...

Lawmakers should quickly pass a bill to require accurate data collection and transparency on solitary confinement.

When the clock hit midnight on New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws took effect. Those include some of the defining bills of ...

Hundreds of new laws take effect in 2025, impacting the minimum wage and how Illinoisans can get IDs, cancel their gym memberships, manage subscription renewals, clear their criminal records, use ...

A new law will affect nursing homes that change ownership. The Illinois Department of Public Health says Senate Bill 3115 ...

At 48, having raised three children now in their 20s, Jeanette Byrd is back in a world of diapers, day care and cartoons. In ...

The NSW premier, the local federal member and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies have condemned Islamophobic graffiti that has appeared under a bridge in Western Sydney.