The Illinois House passed legislation on Thursday requiring more thorough background checks before police officers are hired, less than a year after a Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy shot and ...

This comes almost nine months after former Sangamon County Sheriff, Jack Campbell, retired after receiving backlash for hiring the deputy who shot and killed a woman in her home. Since then, Paula ...

There was plenty of competition nearby. Sangamon, Greene, Pike and Macoupin counties were among the population leaders in the middle of the 19th century. In the earliest days of Illinois ...

With just a couple of weeks left in the legislative session, state lawmakers are trying to craft a spending plan for the next fiscal year that begins July 1. But unlike past years, revenue projections ...

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed, for now, the Trump administration to remove legal protections for roughly 350,000 Venezuelans now living in the U.S., under a program that had protected them from ...

May 8, 2025 — The recent global monkeypox (mpox) outbreak, with a new and aggressive variant, has underscored the dire need for safe, broadly effective, and accessible vaccines. The LC16m8 ...