If they want to really help transgender people, advocates will stop emotional exploitation and admit errors, writes Christine Hawes.

We should always treat fellow humans with compassion. There is an ugly past of homosexuals being horrifically and violently mistreated. That’s reprehensible and unacceptable. But LGBTQ activists, ...

A new ranking has Illinois near the top of the list for human trafficking survivor laws. The state is ranked number two and ...

They changed a code of conduct to allow discrimination if it's justified by a public official's "sincerely held religious ...

People say Democrats have a messaging problem. That’s not true. The challenge is structural: Democrats communicate in policy, Republicans in morality. One side argues over line items and the other ...

Darren Bailey, a Republican running for governor of Illinois, suffered an "unimaginable loss" when his son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren were killed in a helicopter crash in Montana. Bailey's ...

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The nationwide "No Kings" movement is set to return to the streets of Illinois this Saturday, Oct. 18, in response to recent actions by the Trump administration and the U.S. Customs and Immigration ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed ready Wednesday to revive a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of ...

A Democratic partisan bill that could make Illinois one of the newest states to have a "right-to-die" law is waiting its fate in the state Senate. It's being referred to as Deb's Law (IL SB1950), but ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that could decide whether political candidates have the right to challenge Illinois' vote-by-mail law in court. U.S. Rep ...