Multiple lawmakers have responded to the Inspector General report on the LaSalle Veterans’ Home.

A report issued Friday gives a scathing review of failures of staff at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home and administration at the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs in preventing, and limiting, a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility that led to the death of 36 residents.

The Illinozie has learned Senate Democrats plan to bring an ethics proposal to the floor as soon as next week.

When legislators enacted sports gambling in the state in 2019, which began in 2020, betters were not allowed to bet on Illinois teams, like Illinois basketball or Northwestern football. That may change.

Governor JB Pritzker’s administration is quietly circulating a plan on clean energy. Energy has been one of the simmering topics of the spring session, following power giant Commonwealth Edison’s deferred guilty plea in a long running bribery scheme.

Governor JB Pritzker said Wednesday he is considering requiring college students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to campus next fall.

A sitting Democratic State Senator facing federal embezzlement charges has a trial date set for early 2022.

Governor JB Pritzker said in 2018 he would veto any legislative redistricting map drawn by politicians. Tuesday, it appeared Pritzker went back on that pledge.

Governor JB Pritzker signed a health care equity bill into law Tuesday, while dismissing Republican concerns about cost of the legislation.

For the first time in Illinois’ 203-year history, the state population will drop in the decennial federal census.

The U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday Illinois would lose a congressional district beginning in the 2022 election cycle.

Governor JB Pritzker says COVID-19 vaccine supply will soon exceed demand. But, he says, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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.

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.

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.

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.”