Appellate Court Justice and Democratic Illinois Supreme Court candidate Mary K. O’Brien released a new ad Tuesday that makes a baseless claim about the political positions of her Republican opponent, incumbent Justice Michael Burke.
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Sen. Scott Bennett (D-Champaign) has filed the first bill aimed at cleaning up the controversial cash bail elimination law that takes effect January 1.
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House Republicans appear divided into three camps leading into the November election, which could spell the end of House Republican Leader Jim Durkin’s (R-Western Springs) tenure leading the caucus.
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Indicted State Senator Emil Jones III (D-Chicago) pleaded not guilty Friday to federal bribery charges, and his attorneys say he “maintains his innocence.”
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Embattled Sen. Mike Hastings faces a re-election contest against Plainfield Police officer Patrick Sheehan of Lockport. Senate Republicans are high on Sheehan, but does he have a chance of defeating the embattled Hastings?
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Thursday night, the Daily Herald had announced it would stop printing and mailing the Proft-affiliated political pieces designed to look like legitimate newspapers.
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The last Illinois governor to serve two full terms in office says it will be “very difficult” for Republicans to stop Governor JB Pritzker from winning re-election in November.
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Sen. Emil Jones III (D-Chicago), son of the powerful former Senate President Emil Jones, was indicted Tuesday on federal bribery charges relating to red light cameras.
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Top Republicans say they could get on board with changes to the impending end of the state’s cash bail system, if judges are given more latitude than in the way the law is currently written.
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While the battle over a new law overhauling the state’s criminal justice system continues to play out with rhetoric and hot takes, we’re told House Democrats have been quietly working on changes to the criminal justice reform law during the upcoming veto session.
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GOP gubernatorial nominee Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) lost six figures in farm income twice in the past five years, but made six figures in two other years, according to five years of federal tax returns shared with The Illinoize.
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In a hastily called news conference Tuesday afternoon, GOP nominee for governor Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) took aim at Governor JB Pritzker over crime in Chicago, but also revealed he is renting an apartment in the city he continually refers to as a “hellhole.”
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Rachel Ventura wasn’t the chosen one, but toppled the appointed incumbent for a Joliet-based senate district in June.
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Viewers of Sunday’s Chicago Bears game in the Chicago TV market saw a commercial featuring a shocking attack on a woman walking down the street in broad daylight.
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Supreme Court Chief Justice Anne Burke announced Monday she will retire December 1st and will be replaced by First District Appellate Justice Joy Cunningham.
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Both Governor JB Pritzker and lawmakers are reacting to shocking allegations of delays in investigating abuse and neglect at a troubled home for the developmentally disabled in southern Illinois.
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Seemingly without batting an eye, the campaign of billionaire Governor JB Pritzker has spent millions on television ads since the primary election concluded June 28.
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