In an effort to create safer neighborhoods, Chicagoans are interrupting violence at its roots. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch Studies have long shown strong links between ...

Criminal justice reform advocates say legislation to seal criminal records for certain nonviolent crimes, which passed Friday ...

Illinois Democrats introduced what a leading budgeteer described as a $55 billion budget Friday evening ahead of a Saturday ...

State Sen. Elgie Sims, a Chicago Democrat and the Senate’s lead budget negotiator, briefs reporters on the state budget ...

For quite a while now, most folks in politics have assumed that Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and Comptroller ...

"We are all familiar with the chilling statistics that guns are the No. 1 cause of death for our children in the United States," said the bill's sponsor.

As the two governors made buzzy appearances in South Carolina, Democrats in the influential state were already looking to the ...

Illinois Democrats introduced what a leading budgeteer described as a $55 billion budget Friday evening ahead of a Saturday ...

Heeding Gov. JB Pritzker’s warning that he would veto a plan that relied on increases to the state’s sales or income taxes, ...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has cancelled his scheduled appearance and keynote address at the Utah Democrats’ organizing ...

With the clock ticking down, Democratic state lawmakers filed a $55.3 billion spending plan that relies on more than $1 ...