College Sports
Chase Brown, averaging 151.3 yards per game, is on a school-record streak of eight straight 100-yard rushing performances and became the season's first 1,000-yard rusher and only the third player in program history to reach the milestone in back-to-back years.
Preps
This weekend are the final games of the 2022 regular season. Catch up on the latest rankings of Illinois high school football teams in each class before tonight's games.
Education
Preliminary test scores around the country confirm: The longer many students studied remotely, the less they learned. Some educators and parents are questioning decisions from Boston to Chicago to Los Angeles to remain online long after clear evidence emerged that schools weren’t super-spreaders.
Illinois Politics
Pritzker called out his opponent about opposite stances on what he could do as governor while Bailey continually vowed to overturn the Pritzker-approved SAFE-T Act, a criminal justice system overhaul that attempts to thwart excessive force by police yet ends cash bail for violent criminal suspects.
College Sports
No. 24 Illinois won its fifth straight game with a 26-14 victory over Minnesota on Saturday and became bowl eligible for the first time since 2019 and will end the day tied for first in the Big Ten West.
Preps
Not many changes as the rankings seem to be leveling off near the end of the season, but here are the latest rankings of Illinois high school football teams in each class before tonight's games.
Politics
AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a $23 million fine to resolve a federal probe into its illegal efforts to influence former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, prosecutors announced Friday.
Crime
Another person has been arrested in connection with the killing of one police officer and the wounding of a second at a northern Illinois hotel in late December, Illinois State Police said Friday.
Health
Diverted ambulances. Cancer treatment delayed. Electronic health records offline. These are just some of ripple effects of an apparent cyberattack on a major nonprofit health system that disrupted operations throughout the U.S, including Illinois.
Illinois Politics
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his Republican challenger Darren Bailey used an hourlong debate Thursday finding different ways to call each other “liar” with Election Day fewer than five weeks away.
Crime
Here is a brief summary of recent cases brought by the US Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois.
Illinois Business
Rivian, which also has a plant in Normal, Illinois, had hoped to break ground as early as this summer and begin production in 2024.