SPRINGFIELD – Sustained higher-than-predicted state tax revenues have in recent months given lawmakers a level of budgeting flexibility that is, at least in modern times, without…
SPRINGFIELD – For newly sworn-in Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, customer service is the central mission as he assumes the state’s second-largest constitutional office, replacing…
SPRINGFIELD – Lawmakers on Tuesday, Nov. 29 announced a bipartisan plan to use state revenues to pay down the remaining $1.4 billion in debt taken on by the state’s Unemployment…
SPRINGFIELD – Changes may yet come to the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform before its Jan. 1 effective date, but some of its major proponents in the General Assembly said the results…
As votes continued to be tallied Wednesday, Nov. 9 returns showed Illinois Democrats would hold every statewide elected office and maintain supermajorities in the General Assembly while…
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Elections certified its election results Monday, Dec. 5 putting the final stamp on another Democratic sweep of statewide offices. The board…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, who recently announced he has the support for another term as House speaker, says he looks forward to governing with…
SPRINGFIELD – Republicans chose new leadership for their caucuses in the Illinois General Assembly on Tuesday night, Nov. 15 while the two Democratic leaders have each announced they…
Prosecution granted extension in Highland ...
In a short three-minute hearing, Lake County circuit court judge Victoria A ...
Growing Up X Exhibition opens ...
The Illinois State Museum (ISM) shines a spotlight on Generation X with ...
Elgin area school chief to ...
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education announced Tuesday that Elgin-based ...
Appellate court upholds restraining order ...
SPRINGFIELD – A temporary restraining order that partially blocks Illinois’ new assault ...
