Gary Marx

Reacting to opposition from rural communities and environmentalists, state officials at a Senate hearing Tuesday defended Illinois laws and policies regulating massive hog confinements. As pork producers build and expand...

The Rockford charity called VietNow National Headquarters Inc. raised more than $15 million during the past 10 years with appeals to help veterans racked by joblessness and post-traumatic stress disorder....

The 5-year-old girl was found dead in the bathtub with shallow water framing her cherubic face and open eyes. The state Department of Children and Family Services had conducted two...

The state agency responsible for protecting the children in Semaj Crosby's home assigned unmanageable caseloads to investigators in its Joliet field office and allowed supervisors there to intimidate and mistreat...