It took a few years, but Adriana Schroeder dug deep and finally came up with the birth date for the Illinois National Guard. It turned out to be nearly a century before Illinois entered the Union.

The memo obtained by NPR says troops would be used in activities, including in "night operations and rural interdiction," as ...

A little over five years ago, Maj. Gen. Richard Neely took the Illinois National Guard flag in a chain of command ceremony. On May 4, Neely, the adjutant general for Illinois and commander of the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) — The Illinois National Guard will send 110 soldiers and 30 airmen to help with security at the presidential inauguration next week in Washington D.C. Airmen with the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) — The Illinois National Guard will send 110 soldiers and 30 airmen to help with security at the presidential inauguration next week in Washington, D.C. Airmen with the ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says that approximately 150 members of the state’s National Guard will be in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention this week, but emphasized they are ...

California governor and federal officials traded blame after ICE raids and a violent protest rocked the L.A.-area city of ...

GREAT LAKES, Ill. – For 17 years, Polish and Illinois National Guard Soldiers fought together in Iraq and then Afghanistan. Last week, they rode more than 500 miles together to honor warriors ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday called up 75 members of the Illinois National Guard to help organize shelter, food and medical care for migrants arriving by bus from Texas. The Democratic ...

J.B. Pritzker declared an emergency and called up 75 members of the Illinois National Guard to marshal resources to cope with an influx of asylum seekers bused to Chicago and other cities by Texas ...