Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday tapped a Cook County official to run the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security. Theodore “Ted” D. Berger most recently worked under Cook ...

With many county public defender offices pushed to the limits throughout Illinois, state lawmakers are moving forward ...

Tom DeVore made a name for himself by challenging Gov. JB Pritzker’s COVID-19 orders and running for Illinois Attorney ...

Voters in school districts across Boone County elected board members and passed bond issues Tuesday. School board seats were open in Southern Boone, Hallsville, Centralia, Sturgeon and Harrisburg.

A suspected drug dealer caught in a drug probe now sits in the Madison County Jail with a more than $1 million bond. Robert Young, 39, faces charges of trafficking methamphetamine and trafficking ...

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A rendering of the outside of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center with the renovations and addition. Douglas County commissioners will review a resolution to approve a $55 million bond sale ...

Voters approved a $6 million bond for the Boone County Fire Protection District to make several improvements in the April 8 election. The fire protection district said it plans to purchase fire ...

BOONE COUNTY, Ind. – An Illinois teenager returning home from a spring break trip died in a devastating interstate crash in Boone County. Jordan Laskowski, 14, was killed in the April 4 crash on ...

Last month, Wake County commissioners heard an update on what the entirety of the county's library bond will specifically go toward, as well as its timeline. The $142 million bond, approved by ...

In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful political figures declared it was time to fix their obsolete and expensive computer systems. Cook County Board ...

Jones sued the Cook County suburb in U.S. District Court ... More than 170 municipalities across Illinois — including Chicago — had similar local laws, tenant advocates estimated at the ...