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Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner gave his budged address on Wednesday. Rauner framed the state’s precarious financial situation as a choice for lawmakers this year: work with him on a long-term mix ...

Northwest Side residents could be able to sleep soundly for up to a month at a time under a plan to rotate the O’Hare Airport runways used at night approved Tuesday by a special committee of the...

Apple stepped things up in their fight against the FBI during the day on Wednesday. CEO Tim Cook published an open letter to customers, saying the FBI's actions as an "unprecedented step which threate...

The Chinese military has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of its contested islands in the South China Sea. The move is said to be more evidence that China is increasingly R...

Tech giant Apple and the FBI appeared headed for a deepening confrontation Wednesday after the company's chief pledged to fight federal demands to help mine data from an iPhone used by one of the shoo...

When Governor Bruce Rauner presents his budget Wednesday to the Illinois General Assembly he plans to place some of his focus on restoring state aid for early childhood and K-12 education. The state h...

Donald Trump holds a broad 16-point lead among those likely to vote in South Carolina’s Republican primary this Saturday, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton tops Bernie ...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina both suspended their campaigns on Wednesday. What will that mean for the Republican race moving forward? Tom Bevan the Executive Edit...

President Obama visited the Illinois capital Wednesday, renewing his call for healing the nation’s partisan discord and building a better electoral system. He outlined a few solutions: limiting ...

On Wednesday the Chicago city council voted to give Inspector General Joe Ferguson the power to investigate aldermen and their employees. He replaces Legislative Inspector General Faisal Khan, whose t...