religion

Illinois law allows doctors to refuse to provide services and medications, like abortion and birth control, if it goes against their religious beliefs,…

You’re going to hell. Yes, you, the young male wearing the loud shirt, scarf, and skinny jeans. Yes, you, the student tutor with a 3.8 GPA, who aspires to…

The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he has not visited since his son reported to federal prison late last month.Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is serving…

Springfield Catholic Bishop Thomas Paprocki sent this memo out earlier in the day Tuesday, prior to the march and rally in support of same sex marriage at…

In Effingham, at the intersection of two major interstates, stands a 198-foot cross that puts motorists on notice: This is God’s country. One needs only…

In 1870, Illinois' wise heads gathered to draw up a new and better state Constitution. One of the ways it might be better, argued one delegate, was for…

In the weeks that followed Hurricane Katrina, the Chicago area's largest Christian evangelical churches amassed an astonishing amount of manpower, cash…

Why can't politicians behave like the work-for-tomorrow ant instead of the live-in-the-moment grasshopper?Illinois Issues raised this question in January…

Civil society is on the tips of many tongues these days. This shouldn't surprise us — not in the American democracy. American civic life was not…