“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring – In Concert” will be performed Friday and Saturday at The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. (Columbia Artists Music LLC) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 ...

Retiring Illinois Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin took a victory lap of sorts as guest speaker at the Peoria County Democratic Party’s President’s Day Dinner, delivering a speech that focused on the ...

SPRINGFIELD — In Dallas City, a small town in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, Mayor Kevin Six says residents have grown frustrated wondering whether the state will ever finish paving ...

The archbishop of the Chicago Archdiocese is blasting the Trump administration for glamorizing the war effort. Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, said in a statement Saturday that the U.S.

Political dark money has been around in congressional campaigns for years, but it did not have a major impact in Illinois. Until this election cycle. Generally speaking, “dark money” refers to money ...

Ava Rose Doty has to do homework on a bus and misses her dogs, but has no complaints about traveling the country to perform. The 9-year-old Downers Grove resident is part of the national touring ...

Two members of the state’s Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board have been pegged to stay on the panel. Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler and Nancy DePodesta have been asked by Gov. J.B. Pritzker to remain ...

A Rockford man has been charged in connection with a Valentine’s Day shooting in a local bar. Mariano Mandujano, 31, was arrested Thursday as a suspect in the Feb. 14 shooting at Golden Bar in ...

A Naperville man was killed Friday morning in an accident on Chicago’s Northwest Side. The 25-year-old passenger in a Toyota Prius died in the accident at 5:50 a.m. Friday on the 3500 block of North ...

Republican primary candidate James Marter might be holding true to GOP icon Ronald Reagan’s so-called 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” Or Marter may simply remain ...

The Rockford City Council has approved the largest infrastructure improvement plan in the municipality’s history. The 2026-30 Capital Improvement Program, approved Monday, utilizes $385 million of ...

Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, the heart of the city’s Mexican-American community, is getting its third Quality of Life Plan — and this time, the nonprofits that steered its development are ...