Mitchell Armentrout

The 3,400-slot casino is slated to open next September.

State officials are partnering with Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon’s office to streamline processes to obtain birth certificates, marriage licenses and the other additional personal documents needed to get a REAL ID.

A similar discount program that started this year for natural gas bills in Chicago will soon extend to electric bills.

Isaac Johnson collapsed at the end of his bout at Cicero Stadium, which hosted the Matador Fighter Challenge.

The team's possible future chairman told the Sun-Times he asked their most famous fan "to bless the stadium" that Ishbia hopes to help bring to the South Side.

The Illinois General Assembly passed a law last year allowing for people to carry their IDs on their cellphones.

A federal ban on hemp products tucked into the spending plan that reopened the federal government could put many businesses in jeopardy when it takes effect next year.

State lawmakers send Gov. JB Pritzker a plan to increase power in Illinois as demand across the country is hitting ComEd and Ameren utility customers.

Stiff opposition to a tax package floated this week by Illinois House Democrats seemed to leave a transit deal in jeopardy as the CTA, Metra and Pace stare down a fiscal crisis.

The state's supermajority party could still reconvene to redraw maps in order to keep up with Republican gerrymandering efforts, but serious logistical questions remain.