Sen. Dick Durbin warned during the Senate’s first judicial nominee hearing of the year that he would continue to hold up at ...

Leaders on the Senate Judiciary Committee sparred Wednesday about the American Bar Association’s role in reviewing judicial ...

Budget talks took up most of the political bandwidth in the waning hours of the legislative session, leaving the big transit ...

The $55 billion budget plan unveiled Friday night by Democratic leadership would include new taxes on gambling as well as ...

Illinois lawmakers passed a $55 billion budget with tax hikes on smoking and gambling, but left proposals on transit and a ...

A day after the budget was passed out of the House Executive Committee, the Senate held their own subject matter hearing on ...

A new $55.2 billion state budget may be more significant for what is not in it than what is. Namely, an agreement on how to pay for the more than $770 million dollar shortfall the Regional Transit ...

With public transit agencies in Chicagoland facing a fiscal cliff and the potential for thousands of layoffs, the state did ...

Governor JB Pritzker announced his appointment of Michele L. Pankow, public safety expert and seasoned fire chief, to serve ...

The Illinois Supreme Court is now allowing state lawmakers who are also lawyers to acquire continuing education credits for ...