When Rep. Jonathan Carroll (D-Northbrook) announced late Monday he wouldn’t seek re-election next year, it capped off one of the most tumultuous years of any member of the General Assembly.
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The entry of Darren Bailey into the southern Illinois-based 12th Congressional District is a textbook example of how modern politics has become overwhelmed by personality-driven ego trips and seemingly no longer has anything to do with policy.
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As time ticked away at the end of the spring legislative session, blowing past a self imposed May 19th deadline by a week, numerous lawmakers, Democrat and Republicans, lamented privately how little they knew about budget negotiations happening behind closed doors.
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Republicans all across the sprawling 13th Congressional District say they’re skeptical they can find a candidate who can compete with Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski next year.
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As his first serious brush with is progressive base continues, Governor JB Pritzker Monday continued to defend his decision to pause new enrollment in a health insurance program for immigrants in the country illegally.
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It wasn’t hard to be skeptical when lawmakers passed a temporary repeal of the state’s grocery tax and froze one of the state’s taxes on gasoline was more for their political benefit and less to help struggling taxpayers.
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House Speaker Chris Welch and Senate President Don Harmon have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money using politically connected outside lawyers, instead of lawyers on each staff or with the Illinois Attorney General’s office, records show.
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As expected, former State Senator and 2022 GOP nominee for Governor Darren Bailey is inching closer to announcing a challenge to Congressman Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro) for the heavily Republican southern Illinois district next year.
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Progressives aren’t saying much publicly yet, but we’re hearing there’s a lot of frustration among both Latino caucus and progressive members of the General Assembly after an announcement the Pritzker administration will freeze enrollment in a Medicaid-style health insurance plan for undocumented immigrants.
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A hastily introduced, debated, and passed bill allowing downstate energy providers Ameren and Mid-American Energy exclusive rights to build transmission lines has been criticized by environmentalists and consumer advocates alike, but proponents say the legislation will help speed up the timeline for utilities to bring energy into the state.
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There’s nothing I take more seriously than the rights protected under the First Amendment. Without the first, the others after it don’t matter.
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Governor JB Pritzker appeared to defend legislative and executive official Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) pay raises included in the state budget, though misrepresented previous changes to politician paychecks.
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A new report from the Illinois Auditor General shows Governor JB Pritzker’s Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) failed in oversight of hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic grants for small businesses.
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Friends and colleagues of Illinois Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Todd Maisch are remembering the business leader as a “giant” in Illinois politics and government.
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Under state law, members of the Illinois House and Senate are entitled to a Cost of Living Adjustment, or COLA, each year.
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House Republicans pointed out what they believe to be a $700 million cut to the money local governments and schools receive in the Personal Property Replacement Tax.
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As expected, Democrats in the Illinois House advanced a Fiscal Year 2024 state budget to Governor JB Pritzker’s desk early Saturday morning.
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Some 32 hours after Governor JB Pritzker, House Speaker Chris Welch, and Senate President Don Harmon announced a deal on a new state budget, the Senate finally passed a spending plan late last night, teeing up the House for final action early Saturday morning.
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House Republican Leader Tony McCombie (R-Savanna) has spent her first session leading her caucus on the outside looking in of most meaningful debate under the Capitol dome.
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As the General Assembly prepares to return to Springfield this week in an effort to pass a budget and leave town for the summer, how they intend to do so has left many, Democrats included, in the dark.
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