A proposal to allow terminally ill people to use medicine to end their lives was the topic of an Illinois Senate committee ...

INDIANA (WTHR and WFIE) - A plan to have several Illinois counties join Indiana has advanced to the Indiana Senate. House ...

Hoping to resolve a legal challenge, a group of suburban Republican leaders on Friday announced it is reopening applications ...

Illinois state lawmakers held a first hearing Friday to consider an assisted suicide bill. The “End of Life Options Act” ...

The Senate's budget framework is at odds with the House's approach, and both chambers ultimately have to be on the same page to get the legislation across the finish line.

An Illinois native endured sexual abuse as a child. Now, she's pushing Iowa to pass a law requiring schools teach child sexual assault prevention.

Republican House Speaker Todd Huston’s proposal would create an Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission tasked with ...

The bill from Illinois Sen. Mark Walker already faces pushback from a state banking association, which says patchwork efforts at financial regulation could create confusion.

Illinois state senators are considering allowing doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medicine. Dozens of people gathered in Chicago the the first hearing of Senate Bill 9, the End of Life Options Act ...

Pension experts projected state lawmakers’ plans to drastically expand benefits for newer employees would add $60 billion to the state’s pension liability. Illinois is already $143.7 billion in the ...

The future of the roughly 20 people in the Gompers Park encampment remains uncertain after a planned “accelerated moving event” — a consolidated process where case managers help people find housing, ...