Young Illinoisans across the state are turning their tassels and ending their most recent education chapter, and state Sen. Terri Bryant (R-Union) shared her congratulations to her graduating constituents on May 17.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has frustrated many Republican lawmakers this year, after he broke his campaign promise to reject any partisan redistricting map sent to him by the Democratic majority.
Lawmakers are pained at the news that the 2020 U.S. Census brought for Illinois: tens of thousands have left the Prairie State for greener pastures, and a congressional seat will be taken away because of it.
A moment of silence in the House last week and a resolution recently introduced by Rep. Amy Elik (R-Pawnee) honor the memory of Captain Jake Ringering, a Godfrey firefighter who perished while fighting a structure fire in March of 2019.
Eldon "Twirp" Williams, a Godfrey area real estate agent for over 50 years, was 87 when he was shot and killed while preparing a house for sale in 2018. Now state Rep. Amy Elik (R-Pawnee) asked the House to consider memorializing him by naming a portion of a highway after him.
An Alton legislator blamed the Democratic-led state government for Illinois losing a congressional seat, tieing it to what she believes is a history of corruption and ineffective policies to make Illinois a more desirable state.
Republican legislators feel the remapping duty should be placed in the hands of an independent bipartisan committee of Illinois residents, and complain that the Democrats controlling the Statehouse have more political motives than they do a feeling of civic duty in the remapping.
State Sen. Steve McClure (R-Jacksonville) was one of many Republicans to thank their staff running things behind the scenes in honor of Administrative Professionals Day last week.
The deadline to finalize the state's new legislative district borders is quickly approaching and Democrat lawmakers insist that American Community Survey data is better for the task than official U.S. Census Data, despite widespread criticism of ACS.
With the deadline to finalize the new legislative maps barely two months away, Republican lawmakers are baffled and unhappy that Democrats insist on using American Community Survey data for the remapping rather than official U.S. Census data.
After a year of power struggles between parents, local school districts and higher state powers during the COVID-19 pandemic, some lawmakers feel that Gov. J.B. Pritzker's House Bill 2789 is wrongfully taking decision-making power away from local education entities and centralizing it with the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).
Illinois voters rejected a progressive income tax amendment that was criticized for having potentially devastating impacts on the state's taxpayers by removing the flat tax rate, skyrocket small business taxes by 47% and allow the possibility of taxing retirees.