SPRINGFIELD – With two months to go before the legislature adjourns and current-year revenues continuing to smash expectations, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he and legislative leaders…
SPRINGFIELD – Even factoring in the possibility of a “mild recession” this year, the proposed budget Gov. J.B. Pritzker laid out on Wednesday, Feb. 15 includes nearly $50 billion…
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week asked the College Board for more information about its reasoning for changing the final framework of a new Advanced Placement course in…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois House Republican Leader Jim Durkin will leave the Illinois Statehouse Tuesday, Jan. 10 for the last time as a state legislator. After a bruising 2022 election…
SPRINGFIELD – Lawmakers on Thursday passed a long-awaited amendment to the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform’s provisions that will eliminate cash bail when the calendar hits 2023….
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s second-term legislative agenda will kick off in earnest next week as he proposes his fifth annual state budget to lawmakers in the General Assembly….
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 – 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…
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CHICAGO – In fall 2018, longtime former State Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie ...
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CHICAGO – Officials with the state’s largest transit agencies met with lawmakers ...
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Cases of norovirus, or the stomach bug, have been reported going through ...
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I came across an old Irish rhyme that goes: “Boxty on the ...
