From Capitol News Illinois: State Sen. Emil Jones III, D-Chicago, has agreed to a deal with federal prosecutors that would avoid a retrial and see the three charges against him — including bribery, wire fraud and lying to the FBI — dropped a year from now

From Capitol News Illinois: Under the law, gun owners will be required to keep them in a locked container so that they are inaccessible or unusable by anyone other than the owner. Owners who violate the law could be subject to fines as high as $10,000

Under the new provisions of the Local Library Act, libraries that are governed by the statute are required to maintain a supply of opioid reversal agents

Mark this down now. The Bears will get the Packers. They will do it soon and do it often, Marc Silverman writes

From Capitol News Illinois: More than 700 Illinois schools are within a quarter-mile of crop fields, yet state law doesn’t require pesticide applicators to notify them before spraying.

Three U.S. Senate candidates are off the March 17 primary ballot after the Illinois State Board of Elections on Tuesday upheld objections to their petitions.

For the first time in more than 200 years, the thunder of bison hooves can once again be heard on a Kane County forest preserve prairie. The triumphant return of American bison to Burlington Prairie Forest Preserve in Sycamore represents something deeper.

The Illinois winter weather rule limits utilities from disconnecting eligible customers in who use electric or gas as their primary source of home heating

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed into law a bill banning Homeland Security agents from arresting people in or near daycare centers, hospitals, colleges or courthouses who are suspected of being in the country illegally.