Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

December 4, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. In 2021, the Democratic majority in the Illinois legislature drew new district maps. Last year, citizens cast around 70,000 more votes statewide for Republican rather ...

The problem won’t be solved until Congress and/or the U.S. Supreme Court finally require all states, not just Illinois, to ...

Edgar, 78, a moderate Republican who was raised in Coles County, served two terms as governor from 1991 to 1999.

The former Illinois governor has been undergoing chemotherapy after a diagnosis last month, he told the Sun-Times.

Bloomington-Normal citizens and leaders of local organizations gathered Monday afternoon in front of Congressman Darin LaHood's Uptown Normal office to protest the Trump administration's slash and ...

It was a typical day at the office for former NHL tough guy-turned-broadcaster Rob Ray -- taking pucks to the face and getting right back to work. That was the scene Saturday afternoon when Ray ...

It went unnoticed for years within a vast, two decade-long archive of observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, before being unearthed and described in a new paper published in Monthly ...