Mitchell Armentrout

In a Springfield debate that pits big cannabis companies against the burgeoning hemp industry, all agree weedlike products such as delta-8 should be kept away from kids. So why haven't lawmakers figured out how to regulate them?

The Illinois Gaming Board says some contests offered by the popular platform amounted to illegal gambling. The company says they invite legislators to tax and regulate them.

The company says it will "continue to work to obtain SEC clearance" on its initial public offering that has prompted two lawsuits for excluding white men who want to invest in the city's casino.

More than 48,000 federal workers in and around Chicago have been on edge for weeks as President Donald Trump aims to drastically reduce the federal workforce.

Illinois joins nearly two dozen states suing Trump administration to halt cuts in medical research funding

Bally's announced a $250 million public offering last month for shares of its massive Chicago casino project, but only to women or people of color. That's in line with Bally's agreement with the city, but opponents call it an illegal "race-based stock offering."

The Chicago Latino Public Affairs Committee, run by City Hall lobbyist Homero Tristan, contributed to Friends of Brandon Johnson in June 2023. The City Hall inspector general found the contribution violated a $1,500 cap, and the difference was refunded.

State lawmakers who stood in the way of recent legislation that would've regulated intoxicating hemp products have received significant campaign cash from the industry — while some backers of the proposal got money from the rival marijuana industry.

Engineers escorted a 209,000-pound cooler into its new home at Fermilab in Batavia, as part of a new particle accelerator project aiming to better understand the building blocks of the universe.

Ezike, a regular face on Illinois TV screens in the worst days of the pandemic, acknowledged she violated the state's "revolving door" ethics law when she took the job as CEO of Sinai Chicago in 2022, but she says she didn't do it intentionally.