State cutbacks and state-frozen tuition rates led to the layoffs of 202 Ivy Tech Community College employees, President Sue Ellsperman said Friday. The cost-cutting amounted to $54 million to resolve the shortfall, she said.
Ahead of his scheduled sentencing in two weeks, attorneys for Michael Madigan on Friday submitted more than 200 letters of support for the former speaker of the Illinois House.
Looking for ways to balance the state budget, Democratic lawmakers turned to taxes on smoking and gambling, according to a lawmaker involved in negotiations.
The U.S. government’s list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” that includes hundreds of communities, both red and blue, is confounding critics.
President Trump on Friday said he’d consider pardoning embattled rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s currently on trial in the same Manhattan courtroom where Trump was found liable for sex abuse in 2023.
Elon Musk’s effort to dramatically cut government spending is expected to fall far short of his grand early pronouncements, and perhaps even his most modest goals.
The lawsuit by a Chicago-area investor accused federal wetland protections of threatening property rights.
Calling former House Speaker Michael Madigan “steeped in corruption,” federal prosecutors on Friday asked for a whopping 12 1/2-year prison term and $1.5 million fine for Madigan’s conviction nearly four months ago on bribery and other conspiracy charges.
Michael Protho, 30, of Chicago, was ordered detained while murder charges are pending in the death of an Elburn man in Oak Forest.
Once an agent investigating Mexican drug cartels, new Chicago FBI head Douglas DePodesta is focused on fentanyl investigations and immigration enforcement.