Tag: Government

Two days before lawmakers were scheduled to adjourn for the year, one of the lead negotiators of the SAFE-T Act ...

Lawmakers announced a bipartisan plan to use state revenues to pay down the remaining $1.4 billion in debt taken on ...

People walking through downtown Springfield looked up to an unusual sight – a helicopter hovering over the Old State Capitol, ...

Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch says he looks forward to governing with an even larger supermajority than he had ...

Senate Minority Leader-elect John Curran will take over a caucus that's more than doubled in size by the majority-party Democrats. ...

Changes may yet come to the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform before its Jan. 1 effective date, but some of ...

State Rep. Tony McCombie said that her top priority when she becomes the next House minority leader will be to ...

Republicans chose new leadership for their caucuses in the Illinois General Assembly on Tuesday night, while the two Democratic leaders ...

Illinois voters have approved a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing workers the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining.

Mary Jane Theis was sworn in as chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court on Monday in a public ceremony, ...