U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth is a former military helicopter pilot and chair of the Senate committee on aviation safety.

Illinois students score above national average despite not recovering fully from pandemic setbacks in education.

Illinois’ Gov. JB Pritzker can lead in an effort to develop state responses to counteract or disrupt Donald Trump.

Following the deadly midair collision in Washington, D.C., Chicago officials are raising concerns about safety at local airports.

The immediate threat by the Trump administration of cutting off federal funding seems to have passed, but the incident is affecting Gov. JB Pritzker's thinking on what promises to be a tight state ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) sought to keep expectations in check during an afternoon news ...

Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence had a particularly controversial trip to the Middle East that members of ...

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, faces what could be a contentious confirmation hearing before the ...

Donald Trump's flurry of executive orders has sparked lawsuits seeking to stymie the U.S. president's plans for cracking down ...

Michael Kratsios, who served in the White House and Defense Department in the first Trump administration, is a policy ...

A federal judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump's move to freeze all federal grants pending an analysis to root out ...