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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s proposal to give Illinois homeowners’ a guaranteed $500 property tax refund could leave most renters out in the cold, according to tax experts and renters’ rights groups.

For the 17th time, Congress has passed legislation to a very a deep pay cut to doctors who see Medicare patients.

A bill advancing in the Illinois legislature aims to ban the use of conversion therapy to change some people’s sexual orientation.

The last day of sign-ups for health insurance on the HealthCare.gov website is turning out to have a lot in common with the first: lots of computer problems.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn have joined labor unions and workers to push for raising the minimum wage.  The Democratic lawmakers spoke Monday in Chicago.

Just two weeks after winning a silver medal at the Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, University of Illinois graduate Tatyana McFadden is ready for another year of challenges.

Illinois State Police have processed about one-fifth of the objections filed by residents whose concealed carry permit applications have been denied.

Macon County is having success and saving money with a hybrid court program that's keeping drug offenders out of prison and helping them turn their lives around.

The tornado-damaged central Illinois village of Gifford is getting more than 200 new trees.

Northwestern University has confirmed it will appeal a federal agency's ruling that its football players can create the United States' first union of college athletes.