Dozens of Metra and CTA stations are inaccessible for riders with disabilities, records show. “It is a real challenge,” explained U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a veteran who uses a wheelchair after losing both legs in the Iraq War.

The state’s Legislative Ethics Commission voted unanimously to publish a report outlining an investigation into the conduct of disgraced ex-state Rep. Harry Benton, who resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment.

Illinois will annually honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose 1955 murder galvanized the Civil Rights Movement and became a glaring example of failures in the justice system, under a new law Gov. JB Pritzker signed Thursday.

More than two dozen states, including Illinois, on Thursday sued the Trump administration for requiring them to comply with election and immigration conditions in order to receive billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters.

The House on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, sending a warning to President Donald Trump for the second time.

The Trump administration is seeking to rename New York’s Penn Station as part of a planned $8 billion redesign of the country’s busiest transit hub.

President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies.

The government has withdrawn subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for articles about President Donald Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet.