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U.S. Senate candidate Raja Krishnamoorthi’s campaign downplayed the contributions, calling them just .2% of the millions of dollars he’s amassed.

John Healy’s selection comes amid a legal dispute between Builders Companies, where he’s an executive, and the Illinois Department of Transportation, which builds and maintains many roadways across Illinois. Builders sued IDOT after the agency put a hold on new contracts amid an internal investigation.

Eliminating the penny creates a two-tier system that treats customers who pay with cash differently than customers who pay electronically,

President Donald Trump’s plans to build new nuclear reactors comes with an unacceptable catch.

Miscanthus has a smaller carbon footprint than corn and soybeans, and experts say it has the potential to strengthen U.S. energy independence.

Carbondale, Ill., a liberal enclave within driving distance of 10 states with abortion bans, has become a hub for the procedure. Last year there were nearly 11,000 abortions in this city of 21,000.

All three major Democratic Senate candidates hail from the Chicago region, potentially ending the upstate-downstate balance maintained by retiring Sen. Dick Durbin for 28 years.

Far more than the political standing of Chicago’s unpopular mayor is at stake in this budgetary game of chicken.

There are signs that Donald Trump and Republicans are in trouble, with only 36% of Americans approving of his job performance.

A new study suggests Illinois may be turning the corner after decades of being labeled an “outbound state.”