Tammy Duckworth

Despite being one of the top agricultural states in the country, Illinois ranks a surprising 37th in receiving USDA conservation funds from 2018 to 2022.

The bill aims to nearly double the maximum Pell Grant award, which currently assists over 6 million undergraduate students in pursuing higher education.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth said she wants any police reforms to include a required independent review of police-involved shootings.

Illinois’ first Asian American senator now becomes its first woman reelected to a Senate seat.

Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth announced the projects.

Illinois' two U.S. Senators want Congress to act

Support for Ukraine remains a bipartisan issue, but opinions differ on many other topics

WSIU's Jennifer Fuller chats with U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)

The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing Wednesday to address the EPA’s new plan to clean forever chemicals known as PFAS.The chemicals can be extremely harmful in higher amounts of exposure leading to organ failure.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth says Congress needs to get the National Guard reimbursed for the half billion dollars it spent responding to the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill.