Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule — best known for the 1995 pop hit "I Kissed a Girl" — was killed early Thursday in a house fire in Woodbury, roughly 20 miles east of Minneapolis, her representative ...

The billionaire heir and the former bartender. Many Democrats have been in and out of the spotlight as the party looks for ...

Early Saturday morning, a crash claimed the life of an Illinois woman and critically injured an Illinois man in Monroe County ...

Casas suffered the injury when he hit first base awkwardly trying to beat out an infield single in the second inning. He hit ...

Warren’s Jaxson Davis and Young’s Destiny Jackson are the 2025 Mr. and Ms. Basketball of Illinois. The historic nature of ...

Former Illinois Governor George Ryan has died at the age of 91. He served prison time for federal corruption charges.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet ...

An Illinois man was sentenced to 53 years in prison on Friday for the murder of a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy in an ...

George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, Illinoia House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, ...

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

Illinois man sentenced to 53 years in prison for hate crime, murder of 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy.