Illinois General Assembly this session, but only a small fraction passed both houses. Of those, 86% were introduced by ...

Lawmakers quietly added a fund intended to comply with federal rules about pensions for newer state workers. If it works, ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker had the power to strike $237 million in pork-barrel projects that benefit only Democratic lawmakers’ ...

Illinois is No. 1 in the nation for property taxes, an uncomfortable reality for Rantoul homeowner Yohna Hornbuckle. His ...

Over 200 Illinois towns have opted to charge a 1% grocery tax. Chicago is likely to follow. Local leaders have until October ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison but his allies now run the Illinois House ...

The Illinois Federation of Teachers represents employees in more than 200 school districts across the state, but it does a ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s sentencing to 7.5 years for bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud ends his ...

This legislative session members of the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill to make it easier to sue out-of-state ...

Illinois companies announced 1,477 mass layoffs during May. The highest concentration of cuts impacted Champaign after one of ...

Think former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s influence ended when he resigned or was convicted of bribery? Maybe not ...

At least 52 school districts represented by the Illinois Federation of Teachers – the parent union and chief ally of the Chicago Teachers Union – are up for contract negotiations this year. CTU’s ...