Empower Illinois, one of the state’s scholarship-granting organizations for the Invest in Kids program, opened up its application portal for the 2020-2021 school year. In les...   < read more >

Violence interrupter Tio Hardiman said the creation of a a special license that would allow sales in public could “ease some of the conflict with the illegal drug trade.”

A group of community activists led by violence interrupter Tio Hardiman called on lawmakers Wednesday to permit the sale of legal pot in public places as a way to bolster minority participation in the city&...   < read more >

A pot travel blogger, a Bronzeville man hoping to launch the Marijuana Hall of Fame and the co-founder of the nation’s largest black-owned cannabis company are all applying for coveted weed licenses. Here are their stories.

A real estate broker who writes a respected travel blog that focuses on pot. A Bronzeville marketing guru who wants to start the Marijuana Hall of Fame. And th...   < read more >

Guests lounge and smoke cannabis at the Tetra Private Lounge on March 12, 2019, in the RiNo neighborhood of Denver. Tetra is a private club where guests can bring their own cannabis products to smoke or consume. A dispensary in Springfield, Ill., has been approved to open the state's first marijuana consumption lounge.

Guests lounge and smoke cannabis at the Tetra Private Lounge on Marc...   < read more >

Students in Illinois will no longer have to worry about potential repercussions of missing class in order to vote, starting with the November general election.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Wednesday that allows students to be excused from school for up to two hours to vote in primary, general and special elections or any election in which propositions are submitt...   < read more >

An outbreak of hundreds of cases of coronavirus has resulted in 26 deaths and travel restrictions that are impacting millions of people in China.

Now, the second case of the respiratory illness in the United States has been confirmed to be in Chicago.

A Chicago woman in her 60s who returned from a visit to China earlier this month has been diagnosed...   < read more >

ROCK ISLAND – It will be business as usual for Illinois public housing residents come Jan. 1.

Adult-use marijuana sales begin as the calendar turns to 2020, but public housing residents aren’t allowed to smoke any substance, tobacco or weed, on federal property.

Amy Clark, chief executive officer of the Greater Metropolitan Area Housing ...   < read more >

Only 15 people who self-identified as not being U.S. citizens cast ballots in the 2018 and 2019 elections, the Illinois State Board of Elections said in a correction Thursday, three of which actually turned out to be citizens.

Spokesperson Matt Dietrich had initially reported that 16 possible non-citizens had voted. In a clarification Thursday, he said one of the voters h...   < read more >

Before Gov. JB Pritzker discussed the bill he signed that limits out-of-pocket insulin costs, he addressed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s report Friday confirming the second case of a new coronavirus in the U.S. and the first in Illinois.

A Chicago woman who returned from China in December is currently hospitalized and isolated, but doing well, acc...   < read more >

Results from recent air testing has detected higher levels of cancer-causing ethylene oxide near two plants in Lake County, Illinois.

In a written statement to AB...   < read more >

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You and your neighbor have a decade of familiarity and own similarly comfortable homes. You drive similarly fuel-efficient family SUVs. You even cut your lawns in similar stripe patterns each Saturday, nodding to one another as you sweep the clippings and wrestle giant paper bags.

But when it comes to retirement, the similarities end. Your neighbor, who pulled in a simila...   < read more >