Politics

Crosscheck shares voter information with officials in other states but has been at the center of accusations that it has been used in other states to wrongly purge thousands of voters from registration rolls.

Russia's Vladimir Putin said Monday he did want Donald Trump to win the 2016 U.S. presidential election but took no action during the campaign to make it happen. He said he favored the celebrity businessman because of his policies.

The former Chicago police superintendent says he can take politics and micro-managing out of the city's police department.

Saturday's anti-violence march that shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway led to a Twitter spat between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Governor Bruce Rauner, but the mayor said those focusing on that are missing the point.

High-level talks between the United States and North Korea appeared to hit a snag on Saturday as Pyongyang said a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had been "regrettable" and accused Washington of making "gangster-like" demands to pressure the country into abandoning its nuclear weapons.

Hill faces allegations that he inappropriately touched a state lawmaker and three other women in March during a party.

Hundreds of Illinoisans are likely crossing the border to Indiana and Wisconsin to purchase fireworks, but one Illinois lawmaker is pushing to make them legal so that consumers spend their money here.

Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Trump met with four people for 45 minutes each on Monday and will continue meetings through the rest of the week.

President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, who once said he would do anything to protect the president, told ABC News in an interview released Monday that he now puts "family and country first."

In a WBBM Newsradio debate, West Suburban Republican Congressman Peter Roskam and Democratic challenger Sean Casten slamed each other on tax policies.