Illinois Is in Deep Trouble: What Investors Need to Know Illinois is locked in a political stalemate, and is now in danger of becoming the first U.S. state ever to have its debt downgraded to junk status.

How The Proposal To Replace Obamacare Might Play Out In Illinois It could cause bigger problems in Illinois than in other states -- partly because Illinois has bigger problems to begin with.

Welcome to New Philadelphia, Illinois? … “You’ve got mail!” – One man, one mystery at a time

Clinton campaign wanted to move the IL primary

Illinois budget impasse sets new lows in political and fiscal futility Illinois has never missed a bond payment, but the state for the first time is addressing that doomsday scenario.

Illinois' debt is historically terrible Illinois' political back and forth is taking its toll.

Illinois judge to decide jurisdiction over Cruz eligibility complaint An Illinois judge on Friday said she would decide next month whether she had jurisdiction over a voter's complaint that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz should not be on the state's primary ballot because he was born in Canada.

Case against Cruz's eligibility to be heard in Illinois on Friday

Survivors Sift Through Tornado Debris in Illinois Towns Two people were killed and at least 49 homes were damaged, many of them flattened, in a central Illinois county.

Illinois Cuts Funds For Indigent Funerals Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) has decided the state will no longer help pay for poor people's funerals to reduce a $1.6 billion budget shortfall. The Illinois...