A crane looms above a dusty field just outside of North Platte, Nebraska, where trucks loaded with dirt criss-cross the busy site and workers set up a foundation. Two years ago, an old sewer lagoon ...

Kevin Leicht, a sociology professor at UI, published a book about the declining respect for professional jobs. Titled "Crisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age," the book discussed how college debt ...

Thursday, May 11, 2023 Today’s headlines: Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker isn’t pushing a laundry list of ethics reforms after last week’s convictions in the federal Commonwealth Edison bribery trial.

In extremely rare cases, bird flu can infect and kill cats and dogs when the pets eat birds with the disease. The bird flu wave that’s left around 60 million chickens and turkeys dead nationwide can ...

Three companies want to capture carbon dioxide from Midwestern ethanol plants, transport it by pipeline and store it underground. Many in the ethanol industry claim it’s essential to the industry’s ...

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 Today’s headlines: Caterpillar and the United Auto Workers have reached a new tentative six-year agreement, averting a strike. Dozens of Illinois prison inmates are seeking ...

State Representative Mike Marron is one of many Republicans critical of the spending proposals outlined in Governor J.B. Pritzker’s budget, but he has a plan of his own. Environmental groups in ...

Accurate weather information is important for farmers, emergency responders and researchers managing extreme conditions. But many monitoring networks are limited by unstable, patchwork funding.

We hear from new Illinois congressman Eric Sorensen, who will talk about the chances of getting a new farm bill passed by September.

Collinsville City Manager Mitch Bair has managed a budget that’s seen between $1.5 million and $2 million in extra sales tax revenue since 2020 from the addition of recreational marijuana.

The Illinois 30-minute recess law passed in 2021. Surprisingly, the recess requirement was somewhat divisive, as it only passed 60-52 in the Illinois House.

We take a closer look at the relationship between gas stoves and childhood asthma, including here in Illinois.