Illinois Public Media News

The Illinois attorney general's office is warning residents about a possible scam involving supposedly free medical alert services.

On Friday, U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) became the longest serving member of Congress in history, eclipsing the record held by the late Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia.

Crews will soon start demolishing a 55-year-old dormitory on the University of Illinois campus to make way for a new residence hall.

Illinois lawmakers will be back in Springfield later this month as Gov. Pat Quinn has called a special session.

The way hog farmer Bob Young sees it, city people just don’t understand farmers.

Local reporters, photographers and labor leaders gathered with picket signs outside the Chicago Sun-Times building Thursday, a week after the entire photography department at the newspaper was let go.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for protests across the country to end immediately.

If the new US Senate immigration reform bill becomes law, millions of people will need to learn English to become permanent U.S. residents.

Attorney General Eric Holder has denied the Obama administration is killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes to avoid capturing them and sending them to the Guantanamo prison it wants to close.

On Friday, the Labor Department will release May jobs data, giving economists a better read on the national labor market. But this much they already know: Unemployment is very uneven, with some states still running nearly double-digit unemployment rates and others hitting full employment. The contrast is especially great between booming Iowa and hard-hit Illinois.