From a Chatham kitchen to 10 million monthly visitors, Kasey Schwartz built AllThingsMamma.com into a thriving recipe business—and has learned how to adapt as the digital world changes.

The macabre discovery of dozens of unrefrigerated, decomposing bodies at a South Side funeral home is prompting legislative calls for tighter government regulation of an industry that has operated largely free of state controls.

Across all lines of property and casualty insurance — like home, auto and business — the industry gains a combined $52.3 million in investment income per day when claims are delayed, according to Weiss Ratings for the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America.

Four managers of a sprawling Franklin County mine face federal charges of concealing an underground fire, falsifying safety records and obstructing investigators, while a fifth pleaded guilty in August 2025

Feds issued $100B in refunds to corporations, but there is no reprieve for consumers who paid higher prices

New laws give Insurance Department rate review authority for homeowners, auto policies

The state lifted its moratorium on new nuclear facilities, but development could still be decades away

Discover a different approach to health care. Dr. Hossain Mesbah explains how direct primary care puts patients—not insurance paperwork—at the center of medicine.

Illinois is trying to move the quantum starting line by introducing the subject to students earlier and emphasizing that the field needs workers beyond physics and engineering – although those skills will continue to be highly sought after. That educational effort is backed by an ambitious public investment.

3 Illinois airports rely on federal subsidies for commercial air routes