Rauner Signs $600M University Funding Package
Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation authorizing $600 million in emergency funding to keep major Illinois universities operating until fall.
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Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation authorizing $600 million in emergency funding to keep major Illinois universities operating until fall.
A city-run lending program for small businesses in Chicago is celebrating a milestone: it has made 250 loans.
The former U.S. House Majority Leader writes that the 74-year-old Hastert "is a good man that loves the lord."
Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. says he's having second thoughts about Emanuel Administration budget cuts he supported four years ago that closed half the city's mental health clinics.
Ward 27 Ald. Walter Burnett tells CBS 2 a man came to his office earlier in the day and threatened to kill him and the mayor.
Under Richard Boykin's ordinance, salaries of each county commissioner and the board president, Toni Preckwinkle, would drop by $10,000 annually.
In perhaps her sharpest rhetoric yet, the head of the Chicago Teachers Union has likened Governor Bruce Rauner to a terrorist, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
The "Friends of the Parks" seem to be holding off on any public opinion about Mayor Rahm Emanuel's latest proposal for a George Lucas Museum, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and other officials are backing legislation to improve the way law enforcement deals with cases of sexual assault, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
The teacher strike threat looming in Chicago is a massive difference of opinion. So what's the truth and what's the real sticking point?
Former Governor Pat Quinn launched an anti-violence program years ago with taxpayer dollars. Now an audit finds there's questions about millions of state tax dollars.
A proposal to eliminate the post of lieutenant governor as an Illinois' constitutional officer is running into some questions and doubts in Springfield.
With the original site of the George Lucas Museum tied up in court, Mayor Rahm Emanuel says his administration is fully behind the alternative plan to locate the museum on land now used for the aging McCormick Place Lakeside Center, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
A group of ministers and others came to City Hall, calling for more than a dozen reforms in the wake of the Police Accountability Tax Force reports issued last week, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Could the state's budget stalemate finally end after ten months? The head of a non-partisan government research group is feeling optimistic about a move to make lawmakers feel some of the financial pain, reports WBBM's Nancy Harty.
