The Burr Oak Cemetery scandal has prompted local, county, state and now federal legislators to look at creating new laws and better regulations for cemeteries.
A one-year pilot program between the state’s Department of Family and Support Services and Chicago Public Schools will target homeless students in Englewood.
Residents, community organizations and politicians said they support a proposed Cook County ordinance that would not require some marijuana offenders to be arrested but receive a $200 ticket instead.
Illinois has jumped aboard the “green” bandwagon with legislation that could bring a natural gas plant along with 200 jobs to the South Side of Chicago.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Illinois officials passed a new state budget this month. It relies on borrowing billions of dollars, leaving bills unpaid until next year and promising to cut spending somewhere, somehow, by the end of the year. As in so many oth
Before this month, Jacqui Abrams had visited Burr Oak Cemetery only nine times — once for each of her relatives buried at the historic black graveyard in suburban Chicago.
URBANA, Ill. — University of Illinois President B. Joseph White on Monday told a commission investigating the effect of politics on school admissions that he found an environment in which who you know and what you can offer matter to a shocking degr
