A wave of executive orders and bold pronouncements of his vision for the country highlighted President Donald Trump's first day back in the White House Monday.

As President Donald Trump takes office this week, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is pledging to uphold state laws relating to immigration amid White House pressures.

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday began the process of formally dismissing cases against more than four dozen Illinoisans charged with playing a role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol

Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker delivered their opening salvos Monday against Republican President Donald Trump and his second term in the White House, setting a defiant tone in their defense of immigrant rights and other liberal causes over the next four years.

While Democrats, who control all statewide offices in Illinois, vowed to fight President Donald Trump in his return to the White House, state Republicans welcomed a new term of "hope, prosperity and freedom.

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees voted Thursday to change the designation of the President’s House in Urbana. Henceforth, it’s the Chancellor’s House — though current UI President Tim Killeen and his wife will continue to reside there for the foreseeable future.

Democrats in Congress representing the Chicago area looking for ways to limit the scope of President-elect’s Donald Trump’s plans.

After years of warm relations with the Biden White House, a grim reality sets in for Illinois, with Donald Trump inauguration as president Monday. No high-level player in this blue state has any particular entrée to the Trump world,

The United Automobile Workers union has been pressing the automaker, which owns Chrysler and Jeep, to revive the plant in Belvidere, Ill.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status.

Good morning, Chicago. Promising a “fight” to protect all Chicagoans, Mayor Brandon Johnson said yesterday he has not reached out to the White House in the face of Republican President Donald Trump’s ongoing threats against immigrants — and Democratic officials such as Johnson himself.

Food pantries in five Southern Illinois counties will be able to receive part of a mass food distribution event