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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Tyler Okeke, a youth organizer who advocates voting at 16, about how lowering the voting age could improve Generation Z's turnout at the polls.

Experts fear that the economic pressures of the COVID-19 crisis are helping push some urban hospitals over the edge at the very time they are most needed in low-income communities.

Coalition Life, a St. Louis-based anti-abortion group, has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the “buffer zone” ordinance, which has since been repealed, an unconstitutional infringement on First Amendment rights to free speech.

Ballooning costs, dwindling coverage pose threat to Illinois foster children, advocates say

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a pair of bills Friday that redraw state legislative and appellate court districts, despite the fact that official U.S Census data needed to ensure equal representation has not yet been delivered.

Andrew Larson is the director of market development for the Illinois Soybean Association.

Sean Grayson was convicted in October of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey. The Illinois Department of Corrections confirmed Grayson is in their custody but declined to disclose his whereabouts, citing security reasons.

A small but growing number of U.S. women are choosing to give birth at home. However home birth midwives are not regulated by the state of Illinois....

There were primaries in both major parties, an indicator the 91st is one of the increasingly rare districts in Illinois that are balanced enough to avoid a predetermined partisan outcome.

The race for Illinois' 17th Congressional District this November is considered a true competitive toss-up.