If positive, these cases would be the first infections in the state. Also: the accuracy of tracking norovirus ... and bloated carcasses roasting in the October heat. Since the H5N1 bird flu virus was ...

Rep. Travis Weaver reacts to the state budget approved late Saturday night. Central Illinois lawmakers had predictably partisan reactions to the official state budget for the next fiscal year. The ...

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - Nearly every year, Illinois lawmakers pass a package of measures dealing with the state’s Medicaid program, the joint federal and state health care program that ...

Just before its deadline, Illinois lawmakers passed a record $55.2 billion budget, featuring over $394 million in tax increases, $237 million in fund sweeps and $216 million in delaying funds ...

In the final days of spring legislative session, the Illinois General Assembly voted to increase both funding for the state tobacco control program and the cost of tobacco products, including ...

The state of Illinois and almost every Illinois county was added to that list. Counties and cities deemed to be non-compliant with the Trump administration's immigration policies are threatened ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias warned residents ... that are disguised as legitimate and often include company logos that look real." They are designed to steal money and often ...

It’s “very likely” that a person in Illinois will get the bird flu, if someone hasn’t already, given the number of animal cases in Illinois, said Dr. Robert Murphy, professor of infectious ...

MARKHAM, Ill. (WLS) -- Two people were taken into custody after an Illinois State Police trooper was hit by a wrong-way driver and injured Thursday in the south suburbs, officials said.

SEATTLE -- In Washington state, it wasn't a flock of seagulls that ran so far away, but a single rare bird that managed to sneak out of her habitat at a zoo outside of Seattle. And on Friday ...