Increased pay for educators, better school conditions, mentoring and mental health support are key factors cited by educators that could help alleviate the critical ongoing teacher shortage in ...

Illinois’ junior senator has filed legislation in Washington D.C. that would give veterans fired by the recent layoffs under ...

An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.

Multiple senators introduced an act on Wednesday to reinstate veterans who were affected by a recent federal employee purge.

Some members of Congress are feeling the public outrage in the sheer volume of people calling their offices, attending ...

The Department of Education is implementing mass layoffs just days after President Donald Trump suggested the agency should not handle student loans.

As the Trump administration continues its efforts to downsize the federal government with massive staffing cuts, Illinois Sen ...

The bill aims to create a more steady flow of work at bases around the country, such as the Rock Island Arsenal.

WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and ...

Trump’s allegiance to Oz was further emphasized on Tuesday when the president announced he was nominating Oz’s son-in-law, ...

Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

Kaine joined two other senators in introducing a bill that would restore veterans to their federal government jobs. Vets make ...