SPRINGFIELD — In the years since the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily shut down Illinois casinos, video gambling terminals, horse racing and professional sports — just days after legal sports betting ...

Intern ReporterGabriel Castilho is a graduate student in journalism with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a Fellow in its Medill Illinois News Bureau working in partnership ...

Statehouse ReporterBrenden joined CNI in October, 2025 as a Statehouse reporter. Brenden is a 2017 graduate of DePaul University, where he received his bachelor's degree in journalism and political ...

Illinois expands flood relief for Chicago homeowners as severe storms and tornadoes hit communities statewide.

Illinois lawmakers opened an ethics investigation into Rep. Carol Ammons while awaiting guidance from federal prosecutors.

PJM Interconnection, the biggest grid operator in the U.S., has finally settled on a plan to prevent data centers from causing other customers’ utility bills to soar further in its 13-state territory.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed the fiscal year 2027 budget, which totals $55.9 billion, making it the largest in state history — though he had to once again issue a clean-up veto aimed at addressing drafting ...

SPRINGFIELD — Rideshare drivers can unionize in Illinois, a new law seeks to regulate and classify plastic pellets as a pollutant, and the state will exercise greater oversight of a federal ...

A federal grand jury in East St. Louis returned a four-count indictment against former Carlyle Police Chief Mark Pingsterhaus on Tuesday. The indictment alleges that Pingsterhaus took more than ...

A federal judge on Tuesday OK’d the release of highly anticipated and extremely rare transcripts from a trio of grand jury sessions in October, showing alleged prosecutorial misconduct by assistant ...

“When people in positions of authority conceal deadly conditions and then cover up their actions, they put lives at risk and ...