Tag: Mary Flowers

State Rep. Fred Crespo, D-Hoffman Estates, is urging his colleagues to call on House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch, D-Hillside, to ...

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.

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

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

Democratic Rep. Fred Crespo was removed from caucus meetings and stripped of his committee chairmanship over communication issues, Speaker Chris ...

A measure aimed at addressing high-profile “smash-and-grabs” and other organized retail crime was among the scores of bills passed during ...

The Illinois House advanced a measure Monday that aims to ensure nursing home patients have a right to visitors even ...

Members of the state’s task force on statues and monuments discussed ways to relocate the statue of civil rights leader ...

The Illinois House voted Wednesday to endorse a proposed U.S. constitutional amendment that would finally eliminate what some see as ...