SPRINGFIELD – Government reform advocates in Illinois are urging state lawmakers to impose stricter rules on lobbying activity at the Statehouse, including a ban on lawmakers themselves…
SPRINGFIELD — House Speaker Michael Madigan said Thursday, Dec. 9 he will not initiate a House-led inquiry into a recently unearthed 2012 email written by a state government insider…
Getting legislation through the state House of Representatives will still run through the office of House Speaker Mike Madigan. Rules dictating how the next two years of the House will…
Gov. Bruce Rauner ordered the General Assembly back to Springfield for a special 10-day session from June 21-31 to try to hammer out a last-minute budget before the July 1 end of Illinois’s…
The Illinois State Senate’s “grand bargain” budget bills sputtered out March 1 when senate leaders refused to call seven of the 12-bill package meant to hammer out a budget for…
SPRINGFIELD — A tumultuous year in Illinois politics draws to its close as the historic legislative accomplishments of May and June give way to a flurry of ongoing federal investigative…
Despite just being elected a state representative, Anne Stava-Murray already has her eyes set on the U.S. Senate. That may be a good thing as the state House may not be the friendliest…
The Illinois budget battle for the 100th General Assembly session ended May 31 like a banquet hall catering disaster. It all started in January, when the “Grand Bargain” bills,…
