Four nursing homes in DuPage County have been cited by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) for violations of the Nursing Home Care Act in the second quarter of 2017.

Gov. Bruce Rauner's campaign committee has hired Matt Besler, president of the Illinois Opportunity Project, as its chief adviser, the non-profit advocacy announced on Monday.

The budget battle in the Illinois Statehouse has allowed workers' compensation fraud to continue largely unchecked, the law firm Keefe, Campbell, Biery & Associates (KCBA) contends.

An April 2015 grand jury subpoena released by the College of DuPage (COD) Foundation following an Illinois appeals court ruling in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit requested all documents regarding bank accounts, credit card accounts and records relating to the foundation members, staff and board going back to Jan. 1, 2009, including personnel records as well as expenditures, reimbursements, compensation and benefits, according to Edgar County Watchdogs.

Illinois did something this week that no state has ever done: received a downgraded credit rating to near-junk bond status.

Don Davidson is used to winning on his home floor. On Monday, however, he got a big win on the House floor.

"From Egg Harbor Cafe in Elmhurst to Tuscany Grill in Robinson," Gov. Bruce Rauner told Illinoisans that he plans to remove the duct tape that has been covering holes in the state budget.

The College of DuPage has filed a motion requesting that certain points in the wrongful termination lawsuit brought by President Robert Breuder be clarified by the U.S. Court of Appeals, according to the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW).

Outgoing Downers Grove Township Clerk Laura Hois can't claim a taxpayer-funded pension based on the township board's earlier approval of such a pension because the board didn't approve it in the first place, a public advocacy group argues.

Randy Ramey, a candidate for Wayne Township supervisor, recently took to social media to blast Martin McManamon, Wayne Township's incumbent highway commissioner, for a recent mailer.

Former COD board of trustees candidate charged with six felonies; arrest warrant issued.

For the first time, the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board (ILETSB) has followed its mandate to approve directors of state police academies, the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW) reported recently.

Wayne Township Supervisor candidate Randy Ramey, who won the Republican primary Feb. 28, took to recently took to social media to support fellow GOP candidate Gregory Tamurello.

Aurora voters rejected a bid by state Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (D-Aurora) to become mayor in the Feb. 28 primary. Chapa LaVia received 2,821 votes in the four-way race, which placed her third behind Alderman Richard Irvin and Aurora Assistant Chief of Staff Richard Guzman.

The unofficial results for the Winfield Township Republican primary have been released.

The "grand bargain" budget compromise is inching closer to a vote in the state senate.

Wayne Township Supervisor candidate Art Pierscionek, who is facing former state Rep. Randy Ramey in the Republican primary today, took to social media to thank Examiner Publications Inc. for its endorsement last week.

The trial of former College of DuPage radio engineer John Valenta began Tuesday, according to the Edgar County Watchdogs.

Former state representative Harry "Randy" Ramey took to social media last week to sharply rebuke fellow Republican Art Pierscionek, who had attacked Ramey in the local edition of the Examiner.

U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL) recently spoke up regarding the 'Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States' executive order, signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 27.