Letters sent to federal workers say they are being terminated "based on your performance." But workers told USA TODAY they ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding ...

Jeannie Klein-Gordon spent more than 11 years getting to a permanent position with the United States Department of ...

Veterans in 2021 made up roughly one-third of the federal workforce, which the Trump administration is targeting with ...

On Friday evening, the Office of Personnel Management, which serves as a human resources department for the federal ...

A federal judge is refusing to temporarily block the Trump administration’s mass layoff of federal workers while a lawsuit ...

Illinois may be famous for its deep dish pizza, Cheap Trick, the Willis Tower, and the sock monkey, but the Prairie State is also a hotbed for sightings of cryptozoological ...

President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, an operation led by Elon Musk, has laid off thousands of government workers in ... She's worried the Natural Resources Conservation ...

But Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Natalie Phelps ... in an about-face that has left workers confused and experts cautioning that DOGE’s blind cost cutting will put ...

The termination letters that ended the careers of thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees mean fewer people and less resources will be available to help prevent and fight ...

American auto manufacturers, including those in Illinois, hope to compete on ... auto market in the world,” Kathy Harris, the Natural Resources Defense Council’s director for clean vehicles ...