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Corrections director appointment approved After more than two years of being appointed, Latoya Hughes was approved by the Illinois Senate to be the director of the Illinois Department of Corrections. ...

(The Center Square) - The Illinois House has approved a Senate bill that modifies the Clean Slate Act to seal certain criminal convictions. In the Senate Wednesday evening, state Sen. Elgie Sims, D-Ch...

While the provision may not ultimately be included in final legislation that Illinois Democrats ultimately enact to send hundreds of millions of dollars or more in new revenue to Chicago area public t...

(The Center Square) - An Illinois trucking company owner says the deadly California semi-truck crash involving an illegal immigrant driver exposes a much deeper problem in the industry that federal re...

(The Center Square) - While the state of Texas and private investors are advancing artificial intelligence developments in partnership with Texas colleges and universities, new federal partnerships ar...

(The Center Square) - In today's edition of Illinois in Focus Daily, The Center Square Editor Greg Bishop reviews the ongoing debate at the Illinois Statehouse about which taxes to increase during the...

Energy omnibus bill advancing A small business advocacy organization says the energy omnibus bill passed by the Illinois House last night is full of regulations and subsidies to channel ratepayer doll...

(The Center Square) - Over the past month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers working with federal partners have arrested more than 1,500 violent criminals in Chicago as they were attac...

A jury has convicted former Sangamon County sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey at her Springfield home in July 2024. The verdict was delivered ...

An El Paso man was arrested Tuesday evening on a federal warrant accusing him of making threats against the President. Police say officers and FBI agents conducted a traffic stop around 7:38 p.m. at 6...