Democrat lawmakers are trying to play catch-up ahead of this year's elections after their law-and-order bill, passed last year, fell short, Chicagoland state representative said in social media post this week
The indictment of former state House Speaker Michael Madigan on federal corruption charges is "another step in the long process of cleaning up Illinois corruption," Sen. Dan McConchie (R-Hawthorn Woods) said in a news release
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) share in the blame for failing abused children in state care, House Rep. Steven Reick (R-Woodstock) said during a recent news conference.
Illinois House Rep. Tom Weber (R-Fox Lake) blames state officials, including the governor the state's Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) director for failing abused children in their care
Illinois state lawmakers will have to find another watchdog to police them after Legislative Inspector General Carol Pope announced last month that she is leaving, but it hardly matters, Sen. Craig Wilcox (R-McHenry) told the McHenry Times.
Bipartisan legislation that addresses social isolation experienced by nursing home residents passed the state Senate last week and now is in a House committee.
The Land of Lincoln is suffering a number of financial woes, fueled in large part by unfunded pension liabilities, but neither Illinois nor any other state should expect a bailout from Uncle Sam, according to a resolution introduced into the senate last summer.
Even if Illinois state House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) used "dirty tricks" to fend off 2016 primary challenger Jason Gonzales, the strategy allegedly employed was not illegal, according to a recent court filing.
A Republican Illinois House representative from the 93rd District earlier this week renewed her call for fair maps and pushed support for an independent map-drawing petition following a U.S. Supreme Court decision not to hear gerrymander cases.
There may be – or there may not be – "ongoing investigation(s)" into an Illinois-based political activist group's latest allegations into fraud and other wrongdoing in the Algonquin Township Highway Commission.
A Chicago Democrat lawmaker's second attempt to eliminate Illinois' statewide rent control ban is likely well-intended but will have "unintended consequences," state Rep. Allen Skillicorn (R-East Dundee) said during a recent interview.
A bipartisan House Resolution to insure Illinois does not tax retirement income has been introduced by State Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) following a proposal by the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club to tax retirement income.
Government has no business telling a landlord how much rent to charge a tenant, the state representative from Crystal Lake said during a recent interview about an effort to repeal a 22-year-old rent control law.
Illinois' financial crisis has been a decadeslong bipartisan effort and the state's Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker decision to blame his Republican predecessor isn't helping, the state House Representative from Crystal Lake said during a recent interview.
Illinois education officials are out to get half of the state's budget—and they just might—to the detriment of the state's taxpayers, according to an online Wirepoints newsletter issued earlier today.
Illinois's powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago), earlier today revealed to be a target in the same FBI investigation that led to an extortion indictment against a Chicago alderman, is not accused of anything new, a think tank reported.
Illinois's outgoing Republican governor saw a few of his vetoes overridden during the Fall Veto Session in Springfield and a few new laws have been passed, a QUAD city area lawmaker said in a summary recap released last week.
Illinois's "other debt disaster" is $73 billion in unfunded state retiree health insurance benefits and more than twice that amount owed over the next four decades, according to a special report issued this week by an online news outlet.
Illinois Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) believes state lawmakers need to reject political pork spending that was hidden in the budget passed earlier this year.
Supporting a proposal to cut Illinois property taxes in half and a slate of political candidates who would help make that happen is part of Liberty Principles PAC's recently announced "Save Your Home" campaign.