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The historic home of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield would be among the victims of a federal shutdown Monday. IPR’s Brian Mackey has more on the possible…

There’s a new acting director of Illinois’ child welfare agency. The previous director abruptly resigned Wednesday.Arthur Bishop spent nearly 20 years…

Convicted $54 million municipal embezzler Rita Crundwell has been transferred to a federal prison in her home state of Illinois.The 65-year-old former…

An Indiana group has won nearly $1 million in federal funds to boost efforts to use technology to bring healthcare to under-served areas in four…

A housing report shows that more than 1,300 health and safety issues remain at two public housing complexes in southern Illinois.The data was collected…

About 1,000 people attended the funeral of a young woman whose body was found last month inside a suburban Chicago hotel freezer. Kenneka Jenkins was…

A longtime White House adviser to former President Barack Obama is taking a job as a senior fellow at the University of Chicago Law School.The school…

A Christian advocacy group has filed a federal complaint over an Illinois law requiring health care providers to discuss abortion with pregnant women.The…

The Illinois General Assembly has revived an effort to bridge the so-called “gender wage gap.”The plan would ban employers from asking about salary…

A Chicago-area family is giving $100 million to establish an institute at a medical center that seeks to boost efforts to improve health and prevent…