The Illinois House voted on Wednesday to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, following approval last month in the state Senate. The state is now the 37th to do so, following Nevada in 2017. What this means is that we’re now one state away from maybe enshrining women’s equal rights in the United States Constitution, a…

As predicted, Holocaust denying neo-Nazi Arthur Jones has won the Republican primary in Illinois after running unopposed in the state’s Third Congressional District. Republicans are disgusted by this completely foreseeable turn of events.

Congratulations once again to Republicans for being the political party of choice for white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and Holocaust deniers: In March, Republicans are likely sending a man who calls the Holocaust “an international extortion racket” to the election for Illinois’s 3rd Congressional District seat.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, a rare Republican politician who supports a woman’s right to choose, on Thursday signed a bill that would expand Medicaid and certain state health insurance plans to cover abortion, and would ensure abortion remains legal in Illinois in the event that Roe v. Wade were overturned.

Earlier this month, attorney general Jeff Sessions—David the Gnome’s racist cousin—commenced a review of “consent decrees,” agreements between the federal government and local police forces to address issues of systemic racism and other prejudices. Today, in an op-ed published by USA Today, Sessions broadcasted his…

A Dairy Queen in Zion, Illinois has been closed after its owner used a racial slur while quarreling with a customer.

A new state law going into effect at the start of 2017 will require Illinois salon workers to receive training on how to recognize signs of abuse in their clients.

A group of anti-abortion “sidewalk counselors,” represented by a conservative law firm, are suing Chicago over a 2009 law that created eight-foot “bubble zones” for people near the entrance to abortion clinics. The city says the zones mean that protesters can’t get within eight feet of people entering the clinic…

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was re-sentenced Tuesday to the same 14 years he’s been serving in federal prison for corruption. A judge denied his request to have his sentence cut to five years, even after his lawyers argued that Blagojevich is a changed man, citing, among other things, the fact that he was…

Grab your can opener and head for the nearest bomb shelter. The mayflies have come for us, and as far as I’m concerned, they may as well be locusts.

The daughter of Illinois State Representative Cynthia Soto has been arrested and charged with attacking her mom’s opponent with a staple gun. Robert Zwolinski, who was running against Rep. Soto, tweeted a harrowing photo of himself with a pretty clear staple wound to the head.

A pair of Illinois Republicans have co-sponsored a bill that would refuse to issue a birth certificate to any newborn child whose father is not listed. Hello and welcome to the year 1903!

A fun idea, being instituted for what we’re sure are totally non-bullshit reasons: female reporters at Chicago Fox station WFLD are reportedly being told not to wear hats during outdoor live shots this winter. A producer apparently thinks women “look a lot better without hats.”

A transgender student in Illinois has won a two-year victory: the Obama administration has found that her school violated Title IX by refusing to let her have full access to the women’s bathrooms and locker rooms due to the fact that she had not fully transitioned. The report, released on Monday by the Office for…

If you were an 18-year-old woman living in Illinois between the end of prohibition and 1961, you were legally free to enter a bar and order the drink of your choosing. If you were an 18-year-old man, you would not be afforded the same right.

Homecoming, whether you like it or not, is here. It’s the first formal dance of a new school year in which a teen is given the chance to experience a sweaty slow dance with the current object of their affection. Perhaps even, some backseat dry-humping. Two teenagers from Illinois decided to go the extra mile and ask…

When it was announced Thursday that former House speaker Dennis J. Hastert has been indicted on blackmail charges, nobody had any idea what the hell was going on. The plot has thickened rapidly: Hastert is accused of paying roughly $1.7 million in hush money since 2010, and the L.A. Times is reporting it was to cover…

The town of Berwyn, Illinois, where comedian Tamale Rocks discovered a two-way mirror in the women’s bathroom of a comedy club, is considering a new ordinance to make two-way mirrors in businesses illegal. Meanwhile, Ronnie Lottz, the owner of Cigars and Stripes comedy club, who once vowed to Jezebel that he’d “burn…