With the city facing a projected budget shortfall next year exceeding $1 billion, Mayor Brandon Johnson is looking to the General Assembly for help.

Authorities say they believe a crash through an Illinois after-school building that killed three children and one teenager wasn’t targeted. Police say a car left the road, traveled through a ...

Four children were killed and several more were injured when a car smashed through a building during an after-school program Monday afternoon in a town outside of Springfield, Illinois, police said.