Illinois

Walmart must face a lawsuit that claimed that the retail giant often charges higher prices at the register than it posts on store shelves

John Deere has announced another wave of layoffs, telling around 610 production staff at plants in Illinois and Iowa that they will be out of a job by the end of the summer.

A large Illinois horse farm owned by John Deere CEO John May is up for sale, according to a Wednesday report from Realtor.com. He is reportedly seeking $3.925 million for the property.

Bethalto, Illinois fire crews responded to Route 255 on Sunday afternoon after a Tesla battery reportedly caught fire and posed potential issues with hazardous materials.

A mother in Illinois has won a $1.4 million jackpot after using her children's birthdays as lucky numbers, according to state lottery officials.

Work at an Amazon fulfillment center in a suburb of Chicago appears to have resumed, after employees had evacuated due to a fire Thursday morning.

Illinois has launched a state-run website to track government spending on illegal immigrants as the border crisis drains state resources and taxpayer dollars.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after GoJet and SkyWest aircraft clipped wings at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday.

The fast-food giant McDonald’s is set to debut a new spinoff restaurant called "CosMc's" in a Chicago suburb. The venue will likely serve coffee, iced teas, lemonades and slushies.

Up to 1,000 jobs are on the chopping block for U.S. Steel Corporation's Granite City Works mill in southern Illinois, the company announced this week.

President Biden plans to meet with union boss Shawn Fain on Thursday, following a labor deal in which the Detroit Three will agree to a 25% pay hike, as well as improved retirement packages.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Fortress Safe announced the recall of 61,000 biometric gun safes because of a malfunction that gives anyone access to the safes.

The city of Chicago is considering the feasibility of a municipally owned grocery store as a means of promoting equitable access to food following several notable store closures.

A crash involving a Greyhound bus and three commercial vehicles along Interstate 70 near St. Louis has left three people dead and more than a dozen injured, Illinois State Police say.

A renovated Walgreens store in downtown Chicago now only has two aisles of products available for public browsing while the rest is behind counters.

2Bears Tavern Group, an organization that owns four gay bars in Chicago, announced they are no longer selling Anheuser-Busch products due to the company's distancing from Dylan Mulvaney.

Residents are fleeing blue states in droves and affecting the adjusted gross incomes of the states they are leaving and moving to, according to recent data released from the IRS.

A viral TikTok video shows an employee at a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in Chicago dumping food on the floor and destroying the restaurant after he allegedly wasn't paid for a month.

Walmart is closing half of its Chicago stores by this upcoming Sunday, saying collectively the stores there “have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago."

A Canadian Pacific train has derailed in the Chicago area, the latest in a series of train derailments around the U.S. in recent months.