State Sen. Dan Dernulc filed a bill that would require county property tax assessment boards of appeal members to live in ...

Residents in the south of this Democrat-led state say they want to wave goodbye to the debt, crime, homelessness, and asylum ...

Despite a Cook County judge siding with gun rights advocates over the county’s gun and ammunition tax, the county’s tax ...

Some Indiana lawmakers have taken steps to absorb the Illinois counties that have voted to leave the state. Last election, seven Illinois counties joined more than 20 others to greenlight a proposal ...

The Cook County judge who presided over two order of protection cases in which the suspects went on to allegedly kill a woman ...

Illinois promised answers after fatal officer-involved shootings and other deaths at the hands of law enforcement. But some ...

There had been calls for months to reassign Judge Thomas Nowinski to be reassigned after the stabbing that killed Lacramioara ...

Public reaction to the 10 finalists has been mixed, to say the least, so we turned to local design experts. They had some ...

Illinois counties are seeking to secede from Chicago and Cook County to form a new state, and Indiana has introduced a bill to create a boundary adjustment commission to consider the possibility ...

Indiana's legislature upped a long-standing rivalry with Illinois by introducing a bill to steal disgruntled counties. Why it ...