Three Senate Republicans say Governor JB Pritzker is engaging in a “shady tactic” to prevent hearings and votes on members of the state board that decides whether to release prisoners.
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House Democrats Friday night released new legislative maps that would put nearly half of Republican House members into primaries against each other.
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With just days remaining in the spring legislative session, House Democrats say they’re still trying to find a way to fill an expected $1.3 billion hole in the state budget, but Republicans say Democrats are unwilling to get their spending habits in check.
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On a party line vote Thursday, the Senate advanced a new school sexual education standard that Democrats called '‘responsible” and Republicans deemed “extreme.”
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Corinne Wood, the first female Lt. Governor in state history who bravely battled breast cancer for more than a decade, died Tuesday.
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Will Democrats redraw Supreme Court districts for the first time in 50 years?
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After waiting weeks for Senate Democrats to unveil a final ethics reform bill, Republicans complained Monday about the delay and introduced their own ethics legislation.
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If you are vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask.
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Both the Deputy Governor who oversees the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health pointed the finger directly at former IDVA staff for the COVID-19 outbreak that killed 36 residents of the LaSalle Veterans’ Home last year.
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The final step to a full reopening in the state, the so-called “Bridge Phase,” takes effect today.
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House Republicans pressed the lead investigator into the COVID-19 outbreak that killed 36 residents of the LaSalle Veterans’ Home Tuesday about why the report failed to include the role the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Governor’s office played in the outbreak.
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Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-Oakland) is holding to her campaign promises to do nothing for her constituents.
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Families of as many as 25 of the residents who died at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home are ready to file suit against the state.
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Suburban Mayor Casey Urlacher reformed his political committee Thursday with the intention of challenging Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie in 2022. Urlacher is the brother of Bears legend and Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher.
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With less than a month before adjournment, there seems to be little agreement—and almost no discussion between the House and Senate—on the state budget.
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We’re getting there.
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Sen. Sue Rezin (R-Morris) says a scathing report into failures at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home that led to 36 COVID-19 deaths requires the Governor’s office to explain its actions.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she’s hopeful the city can be “fully re-opened” by the July 4 holiday, but Governor JB Pritzker wasn’t quite willing to share Lightfoot’s optimism.
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A group of House Republicans have a news conference planned for Tuesday afternoon to call on House Democrats to hold hearings following the release last week of a damning investigation into 36 COVID-19 deaths at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home.
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In the case of some House Republicans, 2022 could leave the possibility of “falling upward.”
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