Illinois’ first female caucus leader in the General Assembly, Christine Radogno (R-Lemont), was lauded by both Democrat and Republican lawmakers when she announced June 28 she was…
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…
“Where’s the Democrat Turnaround Agenda?” This was the rhetorical question posed in 2016 by columnists and political analysts in Chicago and downstate after the first year of…
A new “State Jobs” online portal published Feb. 28 by the office of Gov. Bruce Rauner, is an attempt to intimidate 38,000 state union employees during tumultuous union negotiations,…
“Here they were the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party of Theodore Roosevelt, the party of Dwight David Eisenhower, unwilling to say the name of their own presidential nominee –…
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,…
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…
The state’s “grand bargain” budget process may have been more harmed than helped by Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget address to the General Assembly Feb. 15. Skeptical Democrats snickered,…
New COVID-19 guidelines adapted ...
With new guidance from the CDC that addresses the need to keep ...
Central Illinois colleges get ...
Illinois Central College, Bradley University and Eureka College, along with 40 community ...
State lays out $34.6 ...
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Transportation on Aug. 12 laid out ...
Highland Park, Lake County ...
One week after the Lake County Board approved a resolution calling on ...
