Illinois Secretary of State

A new law led opens the door for Illinois drivers to have their driver’s licenses on their phones.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed a measure designating the “giant puffball” as the state’s mushroom after signing hundreds of bills on Friday, completing action on legislation sent to him by lawmakers this spring.

After seven years in the making, the state of Illinois has unveiled the monarch butterfly decal license plate.

Drivers would need to pass a driving test at age 79 instead of 75 under new rules filed by Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias this week.

Matt Mitchell, the former Illinois State Police trooper who caused a high-speed, distracted-driving crash that killed sisters Kelli and Jessica Uhl, has asked to delay his Sept. 20 hearing for the reinstatement of his driver’s license.

Public libraries in Joliet and Bolingbrook have become the latest victims of bomb threats that have affected libraries in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, in Washington, D.C. this week to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, said he hoped other states would “look toward Illinois” to adopt legislation similar to a bill he championed.

With a new secretary of state in Illinois, an ex-state trooper is once again seeking to regain his driving privileges after a high-speed crash that caused the deaths of teenage sisters on a busy St. Clair County interstate in 2007.