Cahokia Heights residents have found E. coli in their drinking water through community-organized testing of samples from kitchen taps. The results raise new questions about […]

Editor’s Note: Illinois Answers published a story last year examining the massive public investment aimed at developing the quantum industry in South Chicago. This week, we end […]

Prediction market platforms have spent the past year fighting with states over who gets to regulate them. Now firms like Kalshi and Polymarket are facing […]

This story is a collaboration between Illinois Answers Project and Capitol News Illinois. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, at a small, round table in a […]

Madison County judge finds name in Epstein files because of legal representation Article Summary  Andrew Carruthers was an associate in the Edwardsville civil firm HeplerBroom […]

Chicago took a step toward beefing up its safety oversight of apartment buildings on Wednesday following years of criticism that the city’s patchwork of reactive […]

After Officer Carlos Baker fatally shot his partner, Krystal Rivera, the Chicago cop told investigators he would “die for her.” But newly released body camera […]

A man with mental illness who says he was strapped down to a chair for three days at Williamson County Jail reached a settlement in […]

When a valuable Glock handgun was stolen from inside a South Side police station, the Chicago Police Department did little to investigate, not even interviewing […]