Elgie Sims

As outrage and protest against police brutality and racial injustice has spilled into the streets of cities across the country, several Black Illinois…

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a law Wednesday aimed at bringing more young people into the civic conversation.High schoolers of legal age to vote…

The photos or videos you store in “the cloud” aren’t actually up in the air. They’re in computer systems housed in hundreds of vast buildings across the…

People with criminal records could soon have better luck getting jobs in health care.It’s already legal for someone with a record to work in the health…

As Illinois abortion rights groups celebrated Wednesday's signing of the Reproductive Health Act, they’ve already got their eyes on what’s next: repealing…

An Illinois state senator is renewing a call for gun control legislation after personally witnessing a shooting this week.Sen. Elgie Sims was at Orland…

When school districts outside of Chicago negotiate contracts, they do so with the assurance that the state will pick up the tab on pensions. To control…

After last year’s historic violence in parts of Chicago, a group of state legislators are once again pushing for tougher gun possession laws.The proposal…

Campus communities in the state feel the consequences of drastic higher education cuts. Editor's note: The state is once again without a spending plan for…

In January, the Illinois prison population was down by more than 2,500 inmates over a year earlier. But that’s still a long way off from Gov. Bruce…