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ISU President Aondover Tarhule on Friday took a practical stance as litigation continues over a lot of federal mandates. "Our first and most important responsibility is to our students,” said Tarhule.

Congressman Darin LaHood is not breaking entirely with the Trump administration on the vaccine question — even while acknowledging he now has more than just concerns.

Capitol News Illinois reviewed Gov. JB Pritzker’s schedule for the last seven years through public records requests and limited data shared by his campaign. Reporters found the 60-year-old governor did roughly 100 one-on-one media interviews in 2025, his most of any year in his tenure as governor.

The pause in funding comes about a week after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it was freezing child care funds in Minnesota, and asking for an audit of day care centers amid allegations of fraud by day care centers run by Somali residents.

Illinois lawmakers vowed to keep fighting for protections against artificial intelligence after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to shield tech companies from state laws.

WGLT has been tracking the cost of living in Bloomington-Normal since January, to find out whether President Trump's promise to "bring prices way down" has happened yet.

A report by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute found federal budget cuts could reduce economic activity in Illinois by $10 billion each year by 2029.

An Illinois State University alum who worked in financial management at USAID says he did not see waste, fraud and abuse at the now-defunct agency.

A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois.

Texas National Guard troops arrived in Illinois amid mounting judicial scrutiny of the federal government’s aggressive immigration enforcement in the Chicago area.