Category Archives: News

(The Center Square) - Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association President Michael Jacobson is proud to call Chicago an outlier when it comes to new tourism figures that show the city bagged nearly $3 b...

Chicago man faces charges in road-rage shooting A Chicago man is facing aggravated firearm charges after an alleged road-rage shooting on the Kennedy Expressway. Police say Rene Garica, 52, fired a we...

Former Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx should need to answer questions under oath about her decision to direct her deputies to not oppose a move by two women who had been convicted of first degr...

(The Center Square) - State officials have announced that AbbVie will build two new pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing facilities at its North Chicago location and create 300 new full-time jobs. ...

(The Center Square) - Advocates for Illinois communities are expressing opposition to Gov. J.B. Pritzker's planned reduction of the state's revenue distribution rate to local governments. The governor...

(The Center Square) - Chicago Park District officials are reportedly planning to use Illinois gas tax revenue to help transform Soldier Field into a concert and special event venue. Fox 32 Chicago rep...

(The Center Square) - Illinois' highly paid diversity commissioners dodged in-person questions from The Center Square last week about their decisions that have, in effect, made it more difficult for m...

(The Center Square) - With Illinois now ranking among the hardest states for residents to improve their economic and social status, Republican state Rep. Dan Ugaste insists he's focused on making sure...

(The Center Square) - A bipartisan effort is underway to eliminate the option of eminent domain for carbon dioxide pipelines in Illinois. Carbon sequestration advocates say the process of storing carb...

(The Center Square) - A retired Cook County judge says he has great confidence in his case against justices of the Illinois Supreme Court. The Liberty Justice Center filed the civil rights lawsuit in ...