State Senators pressed the Pritzker administration Friday on plans to eliminate a tax credit for job creation as a part of closing the state’s budget gap.
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One of the state’s leading voices in good government says lawmakers should delay passing a legislative redistricting plan until full census data is available, even if that means asking a judge if they can ignore the constitutional deadline.
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A bill sponsored by Rep. Carol Ammons (D-Urbana) that, essentially, decriminalizes significant amounts of drugs. The bill could have larger implications on the shaky relationship between lawmakers and police.
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Mayors from around state want Governor JB Pritzker and the General Assembly to stop using money set aside for local municipalities to help balance the state’s budget.
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The top House Republican says he’s fed up with hypocrisy from House Democrats as they continue to plan to pass legislative redistricting maps without official census data. But, a spokesperson for House Speaker Chris Welch calls GOP complaints “political posturing.”
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The state has begun redirecting some of the COVID-19 vaccine allocated for many downstate communities to the suburbs and city of Chicago.
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The decennial redistricting process, and the politics surrounding it, seem to be taking all of the oxygen out from under the Capitol dome.
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With a verdict expected as early as Tuesday in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, city of Chicago and state officials are preparing for any violence in Chicago.
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Congressman Adam Kinzinger knows his criticism of former President Donald Trump in a heavily Republican, pro-Trump district may be the end of his political aspirations. And he likely doesn’t care.
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Former Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady, a three time candidate for Governor, may be setting his sights on a run for Secretary of State in 2022.
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House Republicans are essentially echoing The Who. “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
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Joining a federal call to “pause” injections of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine, state officials announced Tuesday they were pausing distribution, too.
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If there’s something growing about the Illinois population, it’s the share of Illinois’ Hispanic residents.
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Republicans know they are fighting an uphill battle in their attempts to stop Democrats from drawing new legislative and congressional district maps without current census data. So, they’re attempting to use the previous statements of top Democrats against them.
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It seems you could fill the miles between Chicago and Cairo with the differences in opinion between Republicans and Democrats in the rules, laws, constitutionality, and standards for drawing new legislative maps.
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Two former state lawmakers won a lawsuit Thursday entitling them to potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay from the state’s budget impasse, furloughs, and previous votes to cut their own salary.
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New State Democratic Chair Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-Matteson) pulled back the curtain on what her strategy will be as party leader during a virtual Q and A Thursday with the City Club of Chicago.
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Governor JB Pritzker says the state is opening up 150,000 new first dose appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine in Cook and other collar counties as the state opens vaccine eligibility to everyone in the state 16-years-old and older.
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Longtime Chicago Alderwoman Pat Dowell appears to be the fourth Democrat headed for a primary to replace Jesse White as Secretary of State next year.
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From Waukegan to Alton, numerous mayors of major Illinois communities were ousted in Tuesday’s municipal elections.
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