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34+ min ago   (872+ words) CHICAGO " Over 1.7 million Illinois adults will be eligible to have their nonviolent criminal records automatically sealed after Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed the long-debated "Clean Slate" Act. House Bill 1836 will require law enforcement agencies and circuit clerks to begin…...

15+ hour, 22+ min ago   (505+ words) The federal holiday of Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on Monday, Jan. 19, and some Illinois schools -- including the state's largest district -- will be closed because of it. According to the'Illinois State Board of Education, Martin Luther King Jr. Day…...

16+ hour, 9+ min ago   (130+ words) Updated on: January 16, 2026 / 1:05 PM CST / CBS Chicago Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is warning residents after an uptick in DMV text scams claiming to enforce a January 17 deadline. According to Giannoulias, the texts claim to be from the "Illinois…...

16+ hour, 18+ min ago   (30+ words) A newly introduced bill that would bar former Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from working in state and local law enforcement in Illinois is sparking intense debate, with supporters calling ......

18+ hour, 18+ min ago   (243+ words) Only two of those contests (at Penn State and at Iowa) were decided by even a single-digit scoring margin, and only one Illinois opponent led for more than two percent of the game (Northwestern was in control for 11 percent of…...

21+ hour, 6+ min ago   (377+ words) DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - New data from the Illinois Gaming Board shows sports betting in Illinois is down significantly. In September of last year, the state implemented a $0.25 tax on the first20 million wagers at each sportsbook. After that, the tax increases to…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (472+ words) The Illinois football team has put talent into the NFL for as long as I can remember. Even with the bad Illini teams, we could still manage to get players on NFL rosters. Since Bret Bielema took over, the influx…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1434+ words) It has been a long time since I have sweated an Illinois basketball result. The Illini went into the Northwestern game up in Evanston and notched win No. 6 in a row. The last time we lost a game was to…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (751+ words) Illinois basketball continues its roll. The Illini beat the young Northwestern Wildcats 79-68 behind a surging Keaton Wagler and their towering post players. That's five in a row for the Illini after dropping a home game to the surging Nebraska Cornhuskers…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (286+ words) An Aurora man has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony narcotics offense and a felony weapons offense, the Aurora Police Department said on Monday. Early last year, Aurora police investigators developed information that…...