Illinois Public Media News

The House has approved a Republican-sponsored bill that would allow insurance companies to continue offering policies that would be canceled because they don't meet the standards of the Affordable Care Act.

An appeals court says it will hear arguments next month on granting a new trial to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  

Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation approving additional state spending for the year.

Trustees at Eastern Illinois University have voted not to raise tuition or room-and-board rates for the 2014-15 school year.

A year and half ago, Baruch Herzfeld, an entrepreneur in New York City, had a novel idea: connect immigrants in the U.S. with radio stations in their home country using nothing more than a cheap cellphone.

Two public meetings on Friday in Champaign about changes to Medicare Advantage plans attracted hundreds of state retirees, many of whom had to be turned away for lack of space.

State Senator Kirk Dillard says Illinois is overtaxed and over-regulated, and that’s playing a large part in the unemployment rate.

The director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is to resign after a cancer diagnosis.

 Four Democrats circulating petitions for Congress in the 13th District had strong words for the incumbent at a candidates’ forum in Bloomington Thursday night.

The new head of the Illinois GOP says it’s too early to say whether Chicago should host the 2016 Republican National Convention. That could be a tough sell to Chicago’s staunchly Democratic mayor.