Vaccines are among the safest, most rigorously studied medical advancements in history. They have saved millions of lives and ...

Medicaid – along with Medicare – was created in that same spirit in 1965, with President Lyndon B. Johnson noting the new ...

Slante, my friends and welcome to the Celtic Nations edition of Now Playing. As some are wont to say, everyone is Irish on St ...

The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

The Massey Commission is "charged to address systematic racism and community mistrust in the patterns and practices of law ...

Four Springfield police officers were disciplined – and one of them will serve a six-day unpaid suspension – in connection with their work at the site of a Sept. 5 car-motorcycle collision in which a ...

Are cellphones a useful tool or a distraction in the classroom? According to Gov. JB Pritzker, they’re a distraction, and he ...

Hundreds rallied Thursday at the Capitol in Springfield to voice their opposition to a bill that would require oversight of ...

Electrons are gradually replacing hydrocarbons as the propulsive power of choice for many Americans as electric-powered vehicles continue to make inroads with the motoring public. According to Kelly ...

The Springfield Police Department has a new tool in its fight against crime – cops without guns. They were once known as traffic wardens but have been redubbed "community service officers" and given ...

When Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Pearce saw a white pickup spotted outside a motorcycle shop that had been burglarized earlier that night, he punched the gas and chased the fleeing truck ...

It's been just four months since the last election concluded, but another election is on the horizon in Illinois: the April 1 elections for school boards and municipal offices. Though municipal and ...