Senate Roundup: Senate passes bill to keep elected officials from collecting salary plus pension
Local elected officials and county board members may soon be barred from simultaneously drawing both a salary and pension benefits...
Pritzker inks Tobacco 21, calls proponents ‘heroes’
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation making Illinois the first Midwestern state to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products...
Gov. Pritzker to sign ‘Tobacco 21’ into law Sunday
Gov. J.B. Pritzker will sign into law a statewide initiative that raises from 18 to 21 the minimum age to...
Senate OKs bill that allows state EPA to combat greenhouse gases
The state’s environmental regulatory body was prevented from taking measures to address greenhouse gases in Illinois for more than 20...
Lawmakers aren’t the only ones who can draw districts, California shows
A coalition of interest groups want citizens, rather than lawmakers, to decide the boundaries of their own political districts. CHANGE...
Lincoln museum in danger of losing ‘extraordinarily important’ artifacts, director says
The foundation that supports the 16th president’s library and museum mismanaged its assets in a way that could put an...
Supreme Court dissent says balanced budget mandate should be considered
Is a line in Illinois’ Constitution instructing the General Assembly to pass a balanced budget a requirement, or a suggestion?...
Chief justice seeks bump in judicial funding from state
The chief justice of Illinois’ top court asked lawmakers this week for what would be the judicial branch’s first budget...
Catholic leaders continue fight against abortion bills
Leaders of Illinois’ Catholic Church denounced a package of reproductive health care bills in the General Assembly, calling them “dangerous”...
Sims: Abortion cannot be a ‘political football’
The issue of abortion needs to be treated as less of a “political football” so individuals on both sides of...
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