The Chicago Department of Public Health announced on Friday that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has cut ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is pulling back $477 million from Illinois that was to be used to prevent infectious ...

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) - The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation updated lawmakers Wednesday on its new online licensing system to streamline the process and ...

After Illinois residents cast nearly 400,000 ballots over five weeks in a contest to redesign the state flag, the overwhelming winner was … the current flag. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi ...

Illinois residents overwhelmingly voted to keep the current state flag during a five-week public poll. The existing design received 43 percent of nearly 385,000 votes, more than the next five ...

The U.S. Department of Justice, already suing Illinois in an effort to strike down the state’s sanctuary protections for undocumented immigrants, wants to use its heft to take out another Illinois law ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — In a new op-ed in the Chicago Tribune, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said up to a million residents of the state will lose health care coverage if funding for Medicaid is cut ...

For Illinois families of all backgrounds and across the state, health care isn’t an afterthought — it’s a lifeline. Since becoming governor, I have made it a top priority — eliminating the ...

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Carle Health announced that it will be shutting down the majority of its health plans, including Health Alliance and FirstCarolinaCare, at the end of the year. State Senator Chapin Rose expressed ...

Top Illinois Democrats led by Gov. JB Pritzker and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Friday made an impassioned plea for the public to help fight potential cuts to Medicaid and other programs by President ...