After Northwestern women’s tennis slumped to its first defeat of the season at in-state rivals Illinois Saturday, coach Claire Pollard rued the mistakes that cost her team in a series of tightly contested...

Illinois voters selected Michael Frerichs (D) as the state treasurer for the third time on Tuesday.  Frerichs, who was first elected to the position in 2014, won with about 56% of the vote and 59%...

I had never heard of Title IX in the winter of 1972. And if someone had told me what it meant, as a restless fifth-grader who spent most of my time chasing after my brothers and the other boys in the neighborhood,...