From Mike Madigan's downfall to a homeschool regulation plan failing, WAND is taking a look at the year's top Illinois ...

While former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan spends the final days of 2025 behind bars, the next filings in Madigan’s ...

What a year for news in Chicago. Did you keep up with the headlines? With endless political news, a new Chicago-style pope, ...

Hordes of federal immigration agents came into the city, and a new pope came out of it. Sun-Times and WBEZ journalists had ...

Had it emerged a few days earlier, it would have been selected as the “word of the year.” The remark was, “Kim Jung-bae’s ...

In these final days of 2025, we're taking a look back at the people and stories that moved Chicago over the past 12 months.

President Donald Trump has used his clemency powers for 12 current or former House members throughout his two terms.

Gavin Newsom massively stepped up his social media game this year. But is his strategy to target Trump getting stale?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Florida, the prime minister’s ...

Speaking of the laboratories of democracy, I think 2026 will be a banner year for states with no income tax — such as Florida, Tennessee and Texas — and will continue to thrive and remain a magnet for ...

From Pope Francis to Ozzy Osbourne, Dick Cheney to Virginia Giuffre, here's a roll call of some of the influential figures ...

According to The Wall Street Journal, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and other top advisers were given no advance ...