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With just two weeks left in the legislative session, Illinois lawmakers have a full plate of controversial issues to tackle.T...
Although the future of Scott Air Force Base in southern Illinois won't be in question for two more years, state and local...
Illinois Senate Democrats are proposing a $156 million boost in primary and secondary education next year. Key budget neg...
An Illinois senator is blaming unnamed "extremists" who oppose legislation to restrict the possession of concealed ...
An Illinois Senate committee has approved a concealed carry proposal which gives Illinois State Police the power to grant or ...
Policy Director for the Better Government Association Emily Miller stops by to discuss legislation in Springfield that would ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois 17-year-olds would be able to vote in primary elections in some cases under legislati...
CHICAGO (AP) — A candidate for the chairmanship of theIllinoisRepublican Party who supports gay marriage has pulled out...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A new audit has found that less than half of the money from the state Road Fund has gone towar...
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says control towers at five small airports in his home state of Illinois, including the Southern Illino...
Air Force streamlining efforts mean nearly three dozen civilian jobs have been cut at Scott Air Force Base in southwestern Il...
The Illinois Senate is approving tighter rules for disclosure of public officials' economic interests.Park Ridge Democrat...
A bill allowing the use of medical marijuana will now see a full Senate vote.The Senate Executive Committee voted 10-5 Wednes...
A union-backed approach for addressing Illinois' nearly $100 billion pension crisis is now going to see a full vote b...
House Speaker Michael Madigan is moving forward with a plan to require local school districts to pay their share of teacher p...
A union-backed approach for dealing with Illinois' nearly $100 billion pension crisis is getting its first full airin...
The Herrin Mayor race is going to court.Challenger Steve Frattini says he will file for a full recount in court in the next c...
Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady is stepping down.Brady announced his resignation Tuesday in a letter to the state party's...
Senate Democrats are supporting their own plan to solve Illinois’ pension problems.Senate President John Cullerton says...
Lawmakers return to Springfield with two options on the table for addressing Illinois' $97 billion pension problem.La...
David Yepsin from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute stops by to discuss their latest report on reapportionment in Illino...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon is encouraging lawmakers to create a committee to study how Illinois funds education and recommend ways...
The Illinois Senate has approved a refined gambling expansion plan adding five new casinos including one in Chicago.Senators ...
An Illinois House committee is endorsing a plan by Speaker Michael Madigan to tackle a Goliath-sized public-employee pension ...
A spokeswoman for Senate President John Cullerton says he will keep working to pass a pension reform bill he believes can sur...
House Republicans are frustrated over the lack of action on fracking after a bill was proposed last month.State Rep. Mike Bos...
House Republicans are pushing for a vote on a bill regulating high-volume oil and gas drilling in Illinois.Minority Leader To...
Illinois Senate legislation allowing the carrying of concealed weapons appears less permissive than touted but it's sched...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is holding fast to his position that legislation calling for the carrying of concealed weapons should...
A scheduling change means both former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi Jackson, will be sentenced on the same ...
Gov. Pat Quinn is naming Harrisburg Mayor Eric Gregg to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board.Gregg would serve in the $86,0...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's office says he is working with a state employees' union to get $140 million in back pay...
Another governor is trying to lure away Illinois companies.Florida Gov. Rick Scott sent a letter to Illinois' top 100 com...
Consumers who buy a new dog or cat only to find out it has a serious disease or ailment would have a new form of recourse und...
The Illinois Senate has approved legislation to allow school districts to use cameras to catch people who don't stop for ...
Republican leaders from the Illinois House have proposed a welfare reform package.Illinois House Republican Leader Tom Cross ...
An Iraq War veteran is walking 165 miles from his home near Chicago to his alma mater in eastern Illinois to raise money for ...
The leader of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus says the fate of a measure that would authorize same-sex couples to marry...
State Treasurer Dan Rutherford says Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a point in picking out Illinois' financial problems, but Il...
An expansion of Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could increase Illinois' unpaid bills.Th...
House Speaker Michael Madigan credits a seldom-used legislative practice that breaks up complicated bills into little pieces ...
The Illinois Senate has approved a legislative proposal regulating the use of drones by law enforcement agencies in the state...
Tempers flared during a debate on a concealed carry amendment. Joe Ragusa has more.State Rep. Mike Bost joined us on the Morn...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan raised more than $800,000 in political funds compared to $565,000 for Gov. Pat...
Gov. Pat Quinn says he has reached out to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency after deadly explosions near the finish li...
The Illinois House wants to let voters decide whether to keep state government's No. 2 job.Rep. David McSweeney's pro...
Attorney General Lisa Madigan is the latest high-profile public official from Illinois to call for comprehensive immigration ...
A spokesman for the Illinois National Guard and Air National Guard says more than 1,300 of its civilian employees will be tak...
A House Republican leader has announced his support for legalizing gay marriage in Illinois.Rep. Ed Sullivan Jr. of Mundelein...
Federal officials say recent arrests for alleged income tax crimes are a good reminder to the public to file taxes on time an...
An Illinois legislator is trying to prepare the state for what could be a new era in police surveillance.Democratic Sen. Dani...
Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois says he supports same-sex marriage.Kirk said in a post on his blog Tuesday that sa...
Chicago officials want to make it tougher on thugs packing weapons.But legislation to increase prison time for illegal gun po...
The sponsor of a bill that would allow marijuana use for medical purposes in Illinois says the measure is just "one or t...
Gov. Pat Quinn is defending his decision to reappoint the state's Corrections director after complaints from workers and ...
Gov. Pat Quinn is defending his decision to reappoint the state's Corrections director after complaints from workers and ...
The Illinois House has rejected a measure that would require $1 million in liability insurance for people carrying concea...
A House committee has approved a bi-partisan pension overhaul that requires more employee contributions and floats the issue ...
The state Department of Transportation is joining the Illinois Farm Bureau and the state police in attempting to encourage dr...
The state Department of Transportation is joining the Illinois Farm Bureau and the state police in attempting to encourage dr...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says he supports a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing over legislation calling for reg...
Some Illinois House Republicans have shown their disapproval for the debate style the chamber recently adopted to discuss cha...
House Speaker Michael Madigan says passing a gay marriage bill out of the Illinois House will be "very difficult."M...
Former U.S. Rep. Jerry Costello is opening a lobbying firm.Costello will open The Jerry Costello Group LLC. It will have offi...
A member of the Illinois Republican Party's central committee says a meeting was canceled partly because there weren'...
Gov. Pat Quinn says proposed legislation to end some corporate tax breaks is the best way to help pay down $9 billion in ...
Unemployment is rising in Illinois.The state Department of Employment Security says Illinois unemployment rose to 9 percent i...
An increase in physicians' license fees will now move to the Governor’s desk.The 65-49 vote Thursday would make a t...
Lawmakers have found at least one fix for the state's multibillion-dollar pension problem that could pass the Illinois Ho...
The Illinois House has approved a series of measures that would ban semi-automatic assault weapons in Illinois.One amendment ...
Gov. Pat Quinn says the state budget he'll present this week will be "hard and difficult" because of Illinois&#...
Lawmakers in Illinois want to slow down the review process for a major electricity line project by utility company Ameren.Ame...
The Illinois House has approved a measure that would prohibit using cell phones while driving.The 64-46 vote Friday moves the...
New legislation proposed by State Rep. Jay Hoffman would split up the SIU Carbondale and Edwardsville campuses.Hoffman propos...
The top Republican in the Illinois House and the Democrats' chief pension-reform negotiator are teaming up for another ru...
The Illinois Senate hasn't provided a single vote in favor of three appointments by Gov. Pat Quinn to the Southern Illino...
A House committee has endorsed allowing Illinois gay and lesbian couples to marry.The House Executive Committee voted 6-5 lat...
The Illinois House completed eight hours of debate on the contentious issue of public gun possession by adopting a comprehens...
An Illinois House committee could vote Tuesday on a measure allowing same-sex couples to marry.Chicago Democratic Rep. Greg H...
The candidates vying to replace former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. are making their final push before Tuesday's election....
Two downstate lawmakers have introduced a bill in the House to regulate high-volume oil and gas drilling in Illinois.Marion D...
A top House Democrat wants to make a state income tax hike permanent and raise the retirement age to get Illinois out of its ...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is giving himself a little breathing room on proposing a state budget.The Democrat signed legislation...
A failed congressional candidate has sued the Internal Revenue Service, claiming its rules contributed to his loss.Bloomingto...
Harrisburg High School is in hot water after a graduate of the school claims the administration allowed racist behavior on ca...
David Yepsen from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute stops by to discuss recent polls on the 2014 Governor's race and...
Former Congressman Debbie Halvorson is blasting another top candidate in the race to replace former Congressman Jesse Jackson...
A proposal to name a new Mississippi River bridge for the late St. Louis Cardinals great Stan Musial is moving ahead in the M...
Former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson believes her chances of winning Jesse Jackson Jr.'s vacant U.S. House seat have just be...
The push to legalize same-sex marriage in Illinois will move to the House after passing through the Senate.In a 34-21 vote Th...
Illinois has received conditional federal approval for its plan to provide a health insurance marketplace where thousands of ...
A new poll is out regarding the governor’s race next year, released by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.Among fiv...
A union that represents Illinois state workers has issued a memo to members telling them how to prepare in case of a possible...
A Purple Heart recipient from Illinois will be the guest of Assistant U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Dick Durbin at the State of t...
Starting tomorrow, Du Quoin will call someone other than John Rednour their mayor for the first time in 24 years.Rednour is e...
Gov. Pat Quinn is approving legislation that provides hundreds of millions of dollars for road projects and a boost for more ...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is seeking public input on concealed carry of firearms and gun safety at two hearings ...
Gov. Pat Quinn is telling lawmakers that they hold the solution to solving the state's fiscal crisis, particularly Illino...
An Illinois Senate committee has approved legalizing gay marriage for the second time in a month.The Executive Committee vote...
The Illinois House has approved a measure that transfers money saved from prison closures, including the closure of the Tamms...
State Representative John Bradley will now be an assistant majority leader in the Illinois House.The Democrat from Marion was...
Legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in Illinois is expected to come up in a Senate committee meeting Tuesday.That's ...
West Frankfort’s Police Chief is retiring after five years.Police Chief Jeff Tharp’s resignation was official as ...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon is inviting new lawmakers from across Illinois to work with her on a concealed carry law.A federal appe...
The US House of Representatives voted to pass the No Budget, No Pay Act yesterday that set the issue of the debt ceiling asid...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon has some advice for three Illinois freshmen in Congress: join the Defense Communities Caucus. Simon say...
The pension crisis has prompted a rising number of lawmakers to say they won't accept their legislative pension.At least ...
Illinois Democrats haven't given up on borrowing billions of dollars to reduce the state's staggering backlog of unpa...
Sen. Dick Durbin says the chances are good that the U.S. Senate will pass comprehensive immigration reform.Durbin says he is ...
House Speaker Michael Madigan was re-elected as the Speaker of the House yesterday, and he says Illinois' pension crisis ...
Illinois lawmakers who failed to win reform for the state's $96 billion pension deficit last night before the end of ...
Illinois lawmakers who failed to win reform for the state's $96 billion pension deficit last night before the end of ...
A key lawmaker says legislation restricting assault weapons isn't likely to come up in the final days of the lame-duck se...
Lawmakers could finally move forward with a plan to address Illinois' worst-in-the-nation pension problem.A proposal that...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn remains optimistic that lawmakers will send him a solution to a monstrous pe...
A federal judge in southernIllinoissays he's retiring by the end of this year.The Belleville News-Democrat reports that 6...
The chairman of theIllinoisRepublican Party says support for gay marriage is "the most conservative position" becau...
Chicago's Cardinal Francis George is urging parishioners to let state lawmakers know they oppose gay marriage.George'...
Illinois could have $275 million more for road and bridge projects this year if lawmakers approve a Department of Transpo...
A published report says that several politically-connected Illinois judges have found their way back to bench after facing el...
St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly says the county coroner might have committed a crime by serving subpoenas...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk has briefly returned to his Senate office for the first time since suffering ...
CHICAGO (AP) — One of the sponsors of anewproposal to fix Illinois' pension crisis says the plan would save the sta...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn has named a new leader for the Illinois National Guard.Daniel Krumrei was named...
CHICAGO (AP) — Former White House chief of staff Bill Daley says he's seriously thinking about running for Illinois...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A Democrat hoping to replace former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. says her primary opponents sho...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn has left on his annual trip to Germany to deliver cards to service members at a medical c...
CHICAGO (AP) — Holiday care packages will go out soon to Illinoisans serving in the military and their families.The spo...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats say meaningful action in the wake of last week's elementary school shooting must includ...
The sponsors of same-sex marriage in Illinois say they’ll push for a vote in January.Saying they’re “within...
CHICAGO (AP) — A veteran Illinois state senator charged with trying to board a flight with a gun and ammunition in his ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois state officials will donate extra computers from the federal government to help milit...
CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois lawmaker indicted on federal bank fraud and other charges is due in court.The arraignment of...
CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk will return to work in Washington on Jan. 3, a year after suffering a major stroke t...
CHICAGO (AP) — A veteran Illinois state senator charged with trying to board a flight with a gun and ammunition in a ca...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Department of Employment Security says a federal program that provided unemployment insuran...
CHICAGO (AP) — State Sen. Donne Trotter is expected in bond court after he was charged with a felony for trying to brin...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Rank-and-file lawmakers frustrated by slow progress and finger-pointing are offering their own...
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has found a former Cook County commissioner guilty of a misdemeanor charge of destroying a campa...
The Illinois House yesterday voted overwhelmingly to override the governor’s veto of a bill that created an assault wea...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Lawmakers will have anewproposal on the table on Wednesday as part of efforts to fix Illinois&...
While it’s not on the front burner, legalizing same sex marriage in Illinois is still on the radar of one state represe...
Some lawmakers continue to muster support for medical marijuana in Illinois.StateSenator Matt Murphy says there are still som...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Top Illinois Republicans plan to announce their support for providing driver's licenses to...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers return to the Capitol Tuesday for the final three days of the Legislature&#...
Alderman Sandi Jackson no-show at Chicago councilCHICAGO (AP) - A day after U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. failed to show up to ...
Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka met this month withcity officials from all over southern Illinois to discuss ways that state an...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Senate President John Cullerton is defending attempts to fix the state's pension proble...
Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka met this month withcity officials from all over southern Illinois to discuss ways that state an...
Illinois State Board of Elections Director Rupert Borgsmiller said yesterday about 907,000 voters cast early ballots. About 2...
CHICAGO (AP) - It is not likely that election night Chicago will look anything like what happened on election night four year...
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is reminding voters of some basic rights ahead of Tuesday's electio...
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk has appeared in a campaign video for fellow Republican Bob Dold, who is runnin...
CHICAGO (AP) - A spokeswoman says Gov. Pat Quinn is ready to move forward after a spat with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel over t...
