Illinois Public Media News

Soldier from Illinois Killed In Afghanistan; Voters accidentally sent extra registration cards; Birth certificates for Transgender Fathers will be updated.

McClain wont talk; U of I Police Chief is moving; Governor wants cash bail to end; Coyotes have Chicago on alert.

About 32,000 square miles have burned in Australia since the unprecedented bushfires began in October. If those fires occurred in Illinois, that would cover an area stretching from Rockford, to the Chicago Suburbs and down to Springfield -- an area about the size of our neighboring state Indiana. 

For more than a decade, the debate over whether or not to include LGBT clergy and same sex marriage has divided the United Methodist Church. 

We’re a couple of weeks into 2020, which means we’re in the middle of a massive gambling expansion across Illinois.