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Advocates hope a couple of new laws will bring improvements.

Back in 1984, the final stretch of U.S. Route 66 in Arizona was bypassed by an interstate. The Mother Road officially became a ghost road the following year.

The Women's Professional Baseball League is playing all of its inaugural season in Springfield.

The Joliet Treatment Center, designed to treat people with serious mental illness, repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires despite two deaths, an investigation by The Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Sun-Times found.

Financial stress and a lack of mental health resources in rural areas contribute to the problem.

There is a growing interest to split Illinois and create a 51st state. What's behind the push?

The American Library Association tracked thousands of books challenged in 2025.

On this episode, we examine some of the reasons why a degree is no longer a guarantee for finding a job.

On this episode, we listen to a series that examines how schools across the country, including in Illinois, hand out suspensions to Black students at a higher rate than for white students.

Even safety advocates are in disagreement on how old is too old to drive.