Emanuel “Chris” Welch

Crespo said he doesn’t know what he has to apologize for after Welch said that was required.

Welch’s 60-vote rule got a lot of public attention this spring during negotiations over the Bears bill

Despite a Hail Mary heave from the Illinois Senate in the final hours of the spring legislative session, state lawmakers ...

The budget is the focus, and new revenue options are beginning to take shape in the final stretch of the ...

After months of hearings and behind-closed-doors negotiations, Illinois lawmakers are moving towards a legislative framework for regulating artificial intelligence that ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson tested his clout in Springfield this week by – publicly and privately – urging state lawmakers ...

The Illinois Municipal League has unveiled a counterproposal to Gov. JB Pritzker’s Building Up Illinois Developments (BUILD) housing plan that ...

Jimmy Clayton told Capitol News Illinois he is focused on building relationships between the chamber and legislators while pushing lawmakers ...

Illinois lawmakers wanted to ask voters to approve a plan to insert part of the federal Voting Rights Act into ...

Gov. JB Pritzker urged Legislative Inspector General Mike McCuskey to speed up his review of a complaint filed with his ...