Democratic House candidate Val Montgomery was indicted by a grand jury for felony forgery in 2007, according to court documents posted on a House Republican Organization website.
A new 200-bed mental health and medical correctional facility is planned for Joliet that is intended to provide intensive care for offenders with mental illness.
U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL) doesn't want to shut the door on refugees, as he fears will help with the Trump Administration decision to lower the number of refugees permitted into the United States.
Edgar County residents recently expressed their anger online after a federal grand jury indicted former Lincoln-Way School District Superintendent Lawrence Wyllie on fraud charges.
Sen. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant (D-Shorewood) described the recent alleged leak of erroneous school funding information an example of politics at its lowest level, she told the Will County Gazette.
Rep. Margo McDermed (R-Mokena) says the Democratically controlled General Assembly is doing all it can to distract the lllinois people from its lack of answers to the state's financial woes, including passing legislation to keep abortions legal in a hypothetical situation.