A tight fiscal picture and uncertainty over federal funding have complicated negotiations over a budget for Illinois ...

It's not often that someone at the lower end of the organization chart chastises those at the very top. But that's what happened recently when a state appeals court justice asked the Illinois Supreme ...

Illinois lawmakers passed a bill in the House that would create stricter hiring processes for police agencies.

Illinois lawmakers passed a bill in the House that would create stricter hiring processes for police agencies.

Illinois is the only state that hasn’t adopted reforms ... an expensive and time-consuming process. In 1976, a legislative commission condemned the “unnecessary harshness” of the law ...

As lawmakers move to end the program due to costs, some Latino lawmakers say they want to find a way to save it.

It really is not a sense of honor there. It is not a sense of history,” said the director of the Native American Chamber of ...

While representing just a 1% decline, the forecast complicates an already tight fiscal picture as Pritzker and state ...

Illinois’ energy demand will outmatch its supply by 2030, according to a Power Bureau study. That's why some lawmakers are ...

As lawmakers move to end the program due to costs, some Latino lawmakers say they want to find a way to save it.

Amid the annual bustle at the Illinois Capitol ... 1,500 acres had been state park land. State Sen. Mark Walker, D-Arlington Heights, helped usher the measure through the legislature before ...

The measure establishes an 11-member Indiana-Illinois ... The process of one state taking over a portion of another state requires the approval of each state's Legislature, as well as Congress.