A new Illinois General Assembly was sworn in for the next two years on Wednesday, with the House and Senate ceremonies taking two starkly different tones.

The Palisades Fire, which has destroyed an estimated 1,000 structures, was first reported at around 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 7 in the 1100 block of North Piedra Morada Drive.

Illinois is among the states with the largest proportion of works affected by the Social Security Fairness Act.

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In the Chicago area, the National Weather Service was predicting lake effect snow leading to hazardous road conditions throughout the day on Monday, including during the morning and evening commute.

While Northeastern Illinois was under a winter weather advisory with lake effect snow expected Monday, Washington County in downstate Illinois was under a shelter-in-place order after a major winter ...

Although the snow is wrapping up, motorists were asked to stay off of the roads if at all possible Monday morning.

The storm was far from over, meteorologists said, predicting more waves of freezing rain, sleet and snow in varying intensity through Sunday and into Monday morning.

Approximately 63 million people are under winter alerts from the Plains to the Mid-Atlantic including Kansas City, St Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and DC.