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A pension reform proposal developed by a group of education experts has been debated in an Illinois senate committee.The six-...
Illinois lawmakers are convening a special session as called for by Gov. Pat Quinn.Legislators are expected to move forward w...
A spokeswoman for Lisa Madigan says the Illinois attorney general is "doing her job" to advise state lawmakers and ...
More than 150 community groups in Illinois have applied for $28 million in federal funding to educate the public about ne...
State university employees would pay more toward their pensions and receive annual retirement-pay increases tied to inflation...
Democratic leaders in the Illinois Legislature will try again to pass a pension-reform plan from House Speaker Michael Madiga...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is planning a fresh vote on his own plan to reform public-employee pensions despite a ...
In Union County, police are looking for a man who robbed a nursing home for drugs.The holdup took place around four in the mo...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is asking lawmakers to approve both rival plans on how to solve the state's nearly $100 billi...
Governor Pat Quinn is expected to meet today with Democratic legislative leader to work out a compromise on the separate pens...
Gov. Pat Quinn is calling a special session for lawmakers this month, but House Speaker Michael Madigan isn't clear for w...
More than $1 billion of the state's overdue bills are being paid off.Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday signed legi...
Gov. Pat Quinn says he's prepared to call a special session on pensions but Senate President John Cullerton and House Spe...
The Illinois Legislature's failure to act on the pension crisis could cause problems for Gov. Pat Quinn's re-election...
Illinois lawmakers are leaving Springfield with major issues outstanding.At the top of the list is the lack of a solution to ...
The House has approved a plan to have Illinois' public institutions of higher education begin picking up retirement costs...
Gov. Pat Quinn says the people of Illinois have been let down after the Senate rejected a pension overhaul that would have cu...
A bankrupt coal producer has a judge's go-ahead to significantly cut health care and pension benefits to thousands of wor...
Senate President John Cullerton says senators will discuss pension overhauls today.He says there are several options they hav...
The Illinois Senate has approved a measure that would create a state-governed "insurance exchange" so individuals a...
Illinois House members say Senate President John Cullerton's pension-reform proposal saves at most only 60 percent of wha...
With just two weeks left in the legislative session, Illinois lawmakers have a full plate of controversial issues to tackle.T...
Illinois' largest union has given the final go ahead on a three-year contract with the state.The American Federation of S...
The unemployment rate in Illinois is down slightly.The April rate, announced today (Thursday), comes in at 9.3 percent, down ...
The Jackson County Liquor Advisory Board says the bars in Carbondale should stay open on Halloween.The board’s recommen...
State universities and community colleges have agreed to gradually pick up their own retirement costs under a preliminary dea...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A new audit has found that less than half of the money from the state Road Fund has gone towar...
A Chicago-based watchdog group says Illinois must have a long-range plan to address its shaky finances, including the nation&...
Air Force streamlining efforts mean nearly three dozen civilian jobs have been cut at Scott Air Force Base in southwestern Il...
Both chambers in the General Assembly are set for a showdown over a solution to the state’s $97 billion pension pro...
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...
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...
A comprehensive pension-reform plan is now on its way to the Senate.The House voted 62-51 Thursday to advance the measure spo...
An Illinois House committee is endorsing a plan by Speaker Michael Madigan to tackle a Goliath-sized public-employee pension ...
The largest Illinois government employees' union will take a second ratification vote on its tentative three-year contrac...
A spokeswoman for Senate President John Cullerton says he will keep working to pass a pension reform bill he believes can sur...
John A. Logan College President Mike Dreith no longer has a buyout clause in his contract.The JALC Board voted to cut the cla...
The Honeywell Plant in Metropolis is calling back workers in hopes of resuming operations in June.Honeywell says some 135 sal...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's office says he is working with a state employees' union to get $140 million in back pay...
Tired of paying more state taxes and hearing only about overdue bills and a pension crisis?Now you can do more than cry, &quo...
House Speaker Michael Madigan credits a seldom-used legislative practice that breaks up complicated bills into little pieces ...
Unemployment held steady in Illinois in March at 9.5 percent with 629,000 people looking for work.State Department of Employm...
Officials say the Illinois Department of Human Services staff is so lean that caseworkers can devote only 45 minutes a year t...
New legislation in Capitol Hill will help the unemployed find work in emerging job fields.The bill, called the Job Opportunit...
A new report says the percentage of Illinoisans who get health insurance through work has declined.The report, released Thurs...
Illinois Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon is underscoring the state's existing pay inequality based on gender.Simon rallied Tuesday ...
A spokesman for the Illinois National Guard and Air National Guard says more than 1,300 of its civilian employees will be tak...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a law restricting union membership among state employees.The law aims to bar employees fro...
Gov. Pat Quinn is taking steps to ensure Illinois has the workforce it needs to fill thousands of new health care jobs.Quinn ...
Illinois' unemployment spiked for a second straight month in February, hitting 9.5 percent. But state officials say the i...
The Illinois Senate has rejected a pension overhaul that delays cost-of-living increases, pushes back the retirement age for ...
The Illinois Senate has approved on a second vote Senate President JohnCullerton's proposal overhauling teacher pensions....
The Illinois Senate has rejected a pension overhaul that delays cost-of-living increases, pushes back the retirement age for ...
A Sangamon County judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a state law that eliminates free or reduced-cost health insurance...
Illinois state government workers represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees have voted ...
Union County State’s Attorney Tyler Edmonds is urging the public to be on alert regarding tax refund fraud and identity...
A House committee has approved a bi-partisan pension overhaul that requires more employee contributions and floats the issue ...
An Illinois Senate committee has advanced two somewhat similar proposals to address Illinois' worst-in-nation pension pro...
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources in April will offer eligibility testing for conservation police officer trainees...
Illinois is settling a federal securities-fraud charge that it misled investors about the health of its pension system.Gov. P...
Unemployment is rising in Illinois.The state Department of Employment Security says Illinois unemployment rose to 9 percent i...
Lawmakers have found at least one fix for the state's multibillion-dollar pension problem that could pass the Illinois Ho...
David England and John Tillman joined us on the Morning Newswatch to discuss how money vanishes from the pension systems.John...
Gov. Pat Quinn says the state budget he'll present this week will be "hard and difficult" because of Illinois&#...
There was plenty for lawmakers not to like – in the proposals themselves, the tactics, or both – when they spent ...
Members of Illinois' largest state employee union and Gov. Pat Quinn's administration have reached a tentative contra...
The top Republican in the Illinois House and the Democrats' chief pension-reform negotiator are teaming up for another ru...
A report from the Chicago-based Civic Federation predicts that Illinois' backlog of unpaid bills will reach nearly $2...
The largest state-employee union in Illinois is preparing to ask its members about striking if there's no progress this w...
Lawmakers have been kicking around ideas regarding pensions for the last few weeks. The latest proposal says the income tax h...
A top House Democrat wants to make a state income tax hike permanent and raise the retirement age to get Illinois out of its ...
Candidates at John. A Logan College's forum for Board of Trustee candidates Tuesday night answered questions on seven top...
David Yepsen from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute stops by to discuss recent polls on the 2014 Governor's race and...
The union representing Illinois correctional workers is demanding a stop to what it says is the transfer of violent maximum-s...
A union that represents Illinois state workers has issued a memo to members telling them how to prepare in case of a possible...
Two guards and a chaplain have been released from a hospital after being hurt in an attack at the Menard Correctional Center....
Illinois officials aren't naming a prison administrator hired in 2011 who was found unqualified for the position in a rep...
More inmates and jobs could be returning to Jefferson County.Immigration and Customs Detainees were pulled out of the county ...
A middle school teacher in Pinckneyville has been suspended and will likely be fired after leaving what was called, “an...
Continental Tire of the Americas plans to invest $129 million at its Mount Vernon plant in an expansion project that will...
Illinois' public employee unions are asking for a meeting with Gov. Pat Quinn and legislative leaders to come up with an ...
The governor is not panicking over a $1 billion shortfall in funding for various state programs.The comptroller this week...
The pension crisis has prompted a rising number of lawmakers to say they won't accept their legislative pension.At least ...
A budget has not been decided on in either Washington or Springfield, and the uncertainty around the fiscal cliff, sequestrat...
The Illinois Department of Employment Security has announced it is closing seven offices, including its office in Murphysboro...
Illinois' budget crisis is expected to worsen after lawmakers failed to enact pension reform last week, and residents wil...
Gov. Pat Quinn has filed an appeal over a Cook County judge's ruling that the state must pay wage increases promised to w...
House Speaker Michael Madigan was re-elected as the Speaker of the House yesterday, and he says Illinois' pension crisis ...
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...
The November Illinois jobs report came out Thursday, and it came with both good and bad news.Unemployment rates dropped in fo...
Governor Pat Quinn says there have been good discussions on pension reform in the days leading up to the lame duck session.&q...
CHICAGO (AP) — One of the sponsors of anewproposal to fix Illinois' pension crisis says the plan would save the sta...
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A former police officer in a southwestern Illinois village is accused of collecting nearly &#...
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois' unemployment rate dipped to 8.7 percent in November as the economy added 16,400 jobs.Preli...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon says funding for the state's veterans homes is threatened by a growi...
ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Musical instrument maker Conn-Selmer Inc. is closing an Illinois plant and moving its work to nort...
MATTOON, Ill. (AP) — More than 150 employees of a telecommunications company in eastern Illinois have gone on strike as...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn is counting down the days until his self-imposed Jan. 9 deadline to overhaul Illinois'...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Department of Employment Security says a federal program that provided unemployment insuran...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Senate President John Cullerton is concerned anewplan to fix the state's $95 ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Rank-and-file lawmakers frustrated by slow progress and finger-pointing are offering their own...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Lawmakers will have anewproposal on the table on Wednesday as part of efforts to fix Illinois&...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers return to the Capitol Tuesday for the final three days of the Legislature&#...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn says he doesn't expect a deal to expand gambling in Illinois before lawmakers address...
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn says he doesn't expect a deal to expand gambling in Illinois before lawmakers address...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Senate President John Cullerton is defending attempts to fix the state's pension proble...
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois lawmakers are considering a measure to cap any wage increases for state employees in contracts negoti...
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois lawmakers are considering a measure to cap any wage increases for state employees in contracts negoti...
A traveling program to ensure Illinois Veterans know what services are available to them as well as their families and potent...
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is reminding voters of some basic rights ahead of Tuesday's electio...
