Bills would prioritize neediest schools for new funding

Today, the Illinois House of Representatives recognized the Illinois members of Team USA who participated in the 2025 Special Olympic World Winter Games in Turin, Italy.

The Illinois Department of Transportation is hosting a career fair in Carterville later this month.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen calls Trump administration plans to zero out home heating and cooling help for "very low-income" people "cruel."

A 1991 graduate of SIU-Carbondale is giving back to his alma mater through a unique internship program.

A Trump administration executive order issued in March demands states not count mail-in ballots received after Election Day and requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. The attorneys general argue that the power to regulate elections rests with Congress, the states.

As Wednesday’s deadline approaches, Giannoulias says most residents don’t need the Real ID yet.

U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly announced her candidacy in a video, less than two weeks after Sen Dick Durbin announced he wouldn’t be seeking reelection for a sixth term. Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton announced her bid a day later.

Public broadcasters are weighing their options and waiting for what's next after the Trump administration issued an executive order to defund public media.

Health care unions continue to rally for legislation to address understaffing they say strains hospitals and threatens both patient safety and staff well-being.

A plan proposed by Governor Pritzker to allow Illinois community colleges to offer a limited number of four year bachelor's degrees has stalled in the General Assembly for the spring term.The bill allowing community colleges to offer a limited number of four year bachelor's degrees in high demand fields failed to make it out of it's committee. But that has not stopped conversations about the proposal.

MrDeepFakes said that a critical service provider terminated service, resulting in massive data loss. The site, which featured nonconsensual, sexually explicit content, said it would not relaunch.

Tech CEO Frank Bisignano will be leading the federal agency that runs programs providing retirement, survivor and disability benefits, as well as supplemental income for the very poor.

The justices blocked a lower court order that temporarily halted the ban's enforcement.

In Syria's large Druze minority, a belief in reincarnation binds the community together.

Williams' FX/Hulu series follows a woman with terminal cancer who decides to pursue her own sexual pleasure. She says the show is about sex, friendship and "being scared and brave at the same time."

The memo weakens President Trump's argument for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants.

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes will be on the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals will begin the secretive process known as a conclave.

The World Food Programme, a U.N. agency and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is facing cuts in its budget that experts are describing as "unprecedented."

Entries for our seventh annual contest for fourth grade podcasters, and middle and high school students are now due Sunday, May 25 at midnight E.T.

Trump administration's is rushing to deport two planes of Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador in March, despite a federal judge ordering the administration to turn the planes around.

Most people think the Pope's church is St. Peter's Basilica. But as the Bishop of Rome, his actual seat is in a church on the other side of Rome called St. John Lateran.

Sauk County Sheriff's Office says Audrey Backeberg, now in her 80s, is living outside of Wisconsin. The detective who managed to track her down says she "had her reasons for leaving" in July 1962.