A House committee has approved a bi-partisan pension overhaul that requires more employee contributions and floats the issue ...

There was plenty for lawmakers not to like – in the proposals themselves, the tactics, or both – when they spent ...

The top Republican in the Illinois House and the Democrats' chief pension-reform negotiator are teaming up for another ru...

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 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...