“Instead of cutting funding that would limit learning and prove harmful to Illinois communities, we’re fighting for ...

The Senate is slogging through a tense overnight session that has dragged into today, with Republican leaders searching for ways to secure support for President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Federal prosecutors want a former ComEd lobbyist to spend more than four years in prison. They filled a ...

John Hooker is the first of four former ComEd officials set to be sentenced in the coming weeks. Prosecutors say he, like ...

After former House Speaker Michael Madigan was sentenced to prison, The Chicago Tribune issued a plaintive cry for a new day ...

If he wins a third term, Gov. JB Pritzker will become only the second Illinois governor to serve more than two terms.

Demographic shifts mean that Chicago’s increasingly diverse young workforce is financing the retirements of older generations ...

For a half-century former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was the godfather of Illinois state “poli-tricks”, holding ...

Illinois has a well-documented history of corruption, extending beyond elected politicians to include appointed and career ...

I’ve found myself thinking less about Michael Madigan and more about another former speaker, Melissa Hortman, who I had the ...

Michael Madigan will follow Ed Burke to federal prison, arguably ending Irish political leadership stretching back 150 years ...

If you had any interaction with a state legislator since the shootings, you know this horrific crime has struck many of them ...