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Illinois legislation allowing public possession of concealed guns has passed the House Judiciary Committee. It was a compromi...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says legislation allowing the carrying of concealed guns will get a vote Friday.He say...
State universities and community colleges have agreed to gradually pick up their own retirement costs under a preliminary dea...
Both chambers in the General Assembly are set for a showdown over a solution to the state’s $97 billion pension pro...
House Speaker Michael Madigan is moving forward with a plan to require local school districts to pay their share of teacher p...
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 ...
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 pushing for a vote on a bill regulating high-volume oil and gas drilling in Illinois.Minority Leader To...
House Speaker Michael Madigan credits a seldom-used legislative practice that breaks up complicated bills into little pieces ...
A House Republican leader has announced his support for legalizing gay marriage in Illinois.Rep. Ed Sullivan Jr. of Mundelein...
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...
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 ...
The Illinois House completed eight hours of debate on the contentious issue of public gun possession by adopting a comprehens...
More than two dozen amendments involving the issue of carrying concealed weapons in Illinois could be debated on the House fl...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is seeking public input on concealed carry of firearms and gun safety at two hearings ...
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...
