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Illinois candidate filings for the March 17, 2026 primary began Monday and will end at 4:30 p.m., on Monday Nov. 3. Here are the Adams County first day filings.

At the end of the 2024 spring state legislative session, the Illinois Federation of Teachers issued a decidedly diplomatic press release. IFT President Dan Montgomery praised the new state budget as “crucial for our state’s success,” and applauded increases in K-12 and early childhood education funding. Montgomery did criticize the “meager” increase in higher education…

As a family business owner and attorney from Central Illinois, I’ve witnessed the resilience and ingenuity that define our state. From the assembly lines of Rockford to the precision machine shops of Peoria, Illinois has been a cornerstone of America’s industrial might. Growing up in the shadow of the Rust Belt’s revival, I learned the…

QUINCY — Illinois Governor JB Pritzker joined Quincy Mayor Linda Moore, State Representative Kyle Moore (R-99th District), Quincy City Council members Kelly Mays (R-3rd Ward) and Laura McReynolds (R-5th Ward) and others Monday morning to celebrate the grand opening of the new Illinois Veterans Home at Quincy exactly 139 years after it was first established…

Almost 3 in 4 voters (72%) decry today’s polarizing political rhetoric as a cause of contemporary violence, and over 4 in 5 state it is unacceptable for their own political party to use violence to achieve its aims…. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and others are villainizing the ICE agents in dire language that is […]

"There are bad ideas, really bad ideas, and then there is whatever Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is proposing next. His latest desire is a head tax on job creation in the city."

Get ready for a new line item on electricity bills across Illinois totaling at least $7 billion as the absurdity of Illinois green energy policy continues. And that's just the start of a monstrous new law.

Doxxing is directly tied to coordinated efforts by rioters to harm ICE agents and by cartel affiliates that have placed bounties on them. DHS earlier this month exposed a cartel bounty system operating in Chicago that is similar to those that have been used in Texas for years, The Center Square reported. This month, a […]

To give taxpayers more financial wiggle room between due dates of the twice-a-year county property tax bills, the state legislation also successfully moved Cook County’s due date for the spring bills, or “first installment,” one month later to April 1. In a fiery budget hearing Thursday morning, when the bills’ fate was uncertain, Cook County Treasurer […]

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit yesterday overturned a federal judge’s order requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement Chief Greg Bovino to give daily immigration enforcement reports.

Federal immigration activity in Evanston on Halloween led to a crash, several arrests, and a heated news conference where city officials accused ICE and CBP of "deliberately causing chaos" across the northern suburbs.

At a time when Mayor Brandon Johnson has been beating the drum for progressive revenue, the Illinois General Assembly chose the most regressive tax of all to help fund mass transit — a 0.25 percent increase in the already high sales tax in Chicago and the suburban and collar county region served by the Regional […]

The legislation, approved largely along party lines, also requires hospitals, day care centers and higher education institutions to create policies delineating how they would handle immigration agents inside their facilities.