Joe Slavens has learned that lesson a few times in his 36-year-long career with the Northwest Bank & Trust Company, including ...

Professor Cindy Buys of the School of Law at Southern Illinois University joins WGN Radio’s Jon Hansen to discuss current issues regarding immigration. Cindy and Jon talk about birthright ...

Mattoon police won't be allowed to make arrests for public drunkenness. Illinois Gov. Dan Walker signed a bill this past week that decriminalizes alcoholism and drunkenness. The bill, which goes into ...

DECATUR — 2024 was a year of celebrating the past, embracing the present and looking to the future for the Decatur Park ...

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

Harris was confirmed in 2021 by the U.S. Senate to fill the role, which made him the first Black person to lead the district ...

The New Year brings new laws in Illinois including a minimum wage bump and measures aimed at artificial intelligence.

Child labor laws will change in five states in 2025, with Indiana and Illinois passing the most far-reaching of these new ...

The Keystone State has the sixth-highest rate of wrongful convictions, according to a new study. Per the most recent data, 3.93 per 100,000 residents in Pennsylvania were wrongfully convicted of a ...

Illinois lawmakers could soon make it easier for children in foster care to live with their relatives or other people close to them.

Hundreds of new laws take effect in 2025, impacting the minimum wage and how Illinoisans can get IDs, cancel their gym ...

Law enforcement retrieved a gun which was found in a juvenile's backpack after school earlier this month in southern Illinois ...