Tag: Harry Benton

House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch said it would be “premature” to call for indicted Rep. Carol Ammons, D-Urbana, to resign, ...

GOP Leader McCombie calls for special investigative committee into Rep. Carol Ammons.

Whether the ethics report that led to former Rep. Harry Benton’s downfall is released will be up to the Legislative ...

Rep. Harry Benton resigned from the Illinois House on Friday in the wake of a legislative inspector general investigation that ...

Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch on Wednesday called for embattled Rep. Harry Benton to resign and promised to initiate ...

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

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

For the first time, House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, on Wednesday hesitantly addressed his exiling of Rep. Harry Benton, ...

Twelve of 36 seats on the Illinois Democratic State Central Committee were contested in Tuesday’s primary election. As expected House ...

Another member of the House Democratic caucus appears to have been excommunicated. Multiple sources told Capitol News Illinois that state ...