County has funds to pay workers ...

Melissa Hortman, a Democratic state representative, and her husband were fatally shot on Saturday morning. John A. Hoffman, a ...

The number of years former House Speaker Michael Madigan spent in Springfield has often been used as shorthand to explain his ...

Despite insisting that the United States is rebounding from calamity under his watch, President Trump is harnessing emergency powers unlike any of his predecessors.

Legislation that mandates the Illinois Department of Corrections to annually report on hospice and palliative care within its ...

In response to the new per-bet tax introduced by the legislature, the two largest online sportsbooks are charging users a per ...

Six months ago, plugged-in Chicago politico Forrest Claypool sounded the alarm about rising pensions debts and called for dramatic action to bring them under control.

The “Clean Slate” Act, which could have sealed thousands and potentially millions of nonviolent criminal records in Illinois, had bipartisan support but failed to pass in the final flurry of ...

Illinois’ latest budget misses the mark in several key areas, according to one independent nonprofit fiscal analyst. State ...

Transit agency officials in Chicagoland met this week and formally began the process of planning for next year's budget, ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan was sentenced Friday to seven and a half years in federal prison and a $2.5 million fine in his corruption case. The hearing lasted hours, starting around 1 ...

An internal memo and emails obtained by AP show Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the data transfer, citing ...