At issue was a 25-year precedent that allows local governments to create protest-free buffer zones around all health-care facilities, not just abortion clinics.

Thaddeus Jones, D-Calumet City. With the nation’s second-highest rate, behind only New Jersey, Illinois collects tens of billions of dollars from property taxes, nearly $34 billion in 2020.

The US housing market is splitting down the middle, with buyers scoring sweet deals in some states while getting clobbered in ...

GOP members of the Illinois Senate unveiled legislation to address the state’s high property taxes. Senate Bill 2093 would ...

The Trump administration is expanding its immigration detention capacity, reopening a 1,000-bed detention center in New Jersey and adding beds at other privately owned facilities around the country.

New Jersey is expensive. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Illinois has the second-highest real estate tax rate in the nation at 2.07%. Homeowners there pay about $5,189 in ...

Illinois also pays the second highest gas taxes in the country. Illinoisans pay the second highest property taxes in the country behind only New Jersey. Illinois’ real estate tax rate is nearly 8%.

At least 14 juveniles were injured when a school bus overturned on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey on Monday, officials said.

we had a regrettable situation at halftime with the jersey around [Shannon’s] celebration," Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman said after the 79-65 loss to Michigan State, per The New York ...