With Donald Trump's two biggest rivals gone from the race for president, Illinois Republicans face running on the same ballot as the controversial candidate some of them have praised and some have denounced. Whether the candidates back presumptive ...

A proposed federal law named for a Buffalo Grove man who died of a heroin overdose has begun moving in Congress. The plan is named Lali's Law for Alex Laliberte, a Stevenson High School graduate who died in 2008. It would create grants that states c...

Lawmakers' move this week toward decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana in Illinois was done with a handful of Republican supporters. Among them: state Sen. Jim Oberweis, a Sugar Grove Republican who voted against a previous versio...

By U.S. Rep. Bob Dold and Chelsea Laliberte Guest columnists Alex Laliberte played sports at Stevenson High School, did well in school and cared about his friends and family, but during his sophomore year of college, he was repeatedly hospitalized f...

Gurnee officials say they are hopeful the village can gain an international trade profile after a private meeting between a local technology company and a representative from the South Korean government. The focus of last week's meeting was AKHAN Se...

U.S. Rep. Bob Dold is scheduled to discuss his efforts to slow the heroin crisis on Republicans' weekly national broadcast address. "I've seen firsthand the unimaginable suffering that heroin has brought onto families in our community and around the...

When the Chicago Blackhawks clinched their most recent Stanley Cup, some fans in one Glen Ellyn neighborhood weren't dancing in the streets. That's because about two feet of water swamped Oak Street after heavy rains last June 15, one resident would...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Protesters opposed to drilling in the Gulf of Mexico disrupted an oil and gas lease sale Wednesday, chanting and waving signs as government officials read bids from companies for the right to explore and develop fossil fuels offsh...