Illinois Public Media News

Democrats in the U.S. House are laying out next steps for the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. We’ll check in with a constitutional law scholar on what we all need to know about this whole process. Plus, hundreds of thousands of servicemembers suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some experts say this problem has stayed invisible for too long. And, why the Amtrak line between Chicago and Carbondale is one of the worst performing in the whole country. Also, we'll get the latest in Illinois sports from Cheryl Raye Stout. 

With most lawsuits, you can read the pleadings and decide who’s the bad guy. But in this case filed by the Children's Habilitation Center, it's hard to find one.

A day after state Rep. Luis Arroyo was charged with bribery, his colleagues began the process to throw him out of office.

State lawmakers are considering whether to ban flavored tobacco products in Illinois. Both sides of that debate made their cases before a panel of state senators in Springfield Tuesday.

Illinois farmers have been growing hemp legally for the first season since the state approved production rules in April. Is this cash crop paying off for growers? Plus, within the past decade, the death rates from suicide went up more than 50% among young people aged 10 to 24. We spoke with a psychologist and a student about what they’ve seen on the ground when it comes to teens and mental health. And, scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum are ecstatic about the latest addition to their collection of meteors. They say it’s in almost the same condition it was in billions of years ago.