No Republican, meanwhile, has won statewide office since Rauner in 2014, and few have come especially close. This puts the ...

Biographer Ron Chernow's latest book is titled "Mark Twain" and provides details into the writer's life. From his sometimes ...

On the Democrat side, four other candidates have filed with the FEC: Kevin Ryan, a Marine veteran and diplomat; Christopher Swann, a program manager for Feeding America; Carmi resident Stan Leavell, ...

Eighty-year-old Bob Becker became the oldest person ever to complete the grueling Badwater 135 ultramarathon, starting in ...

Rising maternal and infant mortality rates are making birth a more risky proposition in the U.S. We'll visit a community in Georgia where one woman is pushing to open a birth center.

A day after the third anniversary of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, it will stop providing specialized counseling service for LGBTQ+ youth. Lawmakers and mental health advocates are concerned ...

Trump lashed out at supporters who are calling for more information to be released about convicted sex offender Jeffrey ...

President Trump is expected to sign legislation to toughen penalties for fentanyl traffickers -- but is also withholding roughly $140 million in approved grants to fund fentanyl addiction response.

An experimental technique that patches defective DNA with donated genetic material helped families at risk of passing rare ...

President Trump said it was "highly unlikely" he would fire Jerome Powell, but also said he discussed the idea with ...

Chris Balkema won a special election last year in the 53rd District, a large, mostly rural district north of Bloomington-Normal. It stretches from the Peoria area on the Indiana border.

James Craig is accused of fatally poisoning his wife of 23 years and trying to cover his tracks by asking his cellmate to ...