In a few years, prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi have gone from pariahs to poster children for all that is hot and trendy in the financial world. While states like Illinois call the ...

This story is a collaboration between Illinois Answers Project and Capitol News Illinois. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, at a small, round table in a spacious apartment in Chicago’s Hyde Park ...

A chunk of the $6.4 billion bond backed by Newsom is flowing to new addiction and mental health treatment programs in San Mateo, Treasure Island and elsewhere.