Rutherford: Tough Road Ahead For Quinn's Pension Plan
Now that the governor has finally unveiled a plan to tackle the state's pension crisis, one top Republican is predicting a tough road ahead.
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Now that the governor has finally unveiled a plan to tackle the state's pension crisis, one top Republican is predicting a tough road ahead.
Representatives of Illinois nursing homes say Governor Pat Quinn's proposed cuts in Medicaid funding will devastate the industry and could leave seniors homeless.
The group planning to protest during the upcoming NATO Summit is giving the federal government until 5 p.m. Monday to release its plans for a security perimeter at McCormick Place, or face a lawsuit.
Gov. Pat Quinn announced a pension plan Friday that he says will fix the state's overtaxed and underfunded public pension system.
A day after delaying a City Council vote on his complicated plan to fund public works projects with private money, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he's listening to complaints from aldermen who were upset with a lack of council oversight in the proposal.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is shrugging off comments from United Airlines' CEO that there's no demand for the expansion of O'Hare International Airport right now.
Trying to save $2.7 billion on Medicaid costs, Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday his job is to tell lawmakers not what they want to hear, but what they need to hear.
The state's controversial legislative scholarship program -- which allows lawmakers to provide free tuition to state universities to students in their districts -- is still alive, despite several attempts to end it. And a top Republican lawmaker says Senate Democratic leaders won't let efforts to repeal the program come up for a vote.
The child support case against U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) has been dismissed, following a resolution out of court with his ex-wife.
An Illinois state panel appointed to find ways to cut Medicaid costs has taken one step forward and two steps back.
Illinois' public employee pension funds are in trouble. The state's largest retirement account is financially strapped, and many say it cannot go on unless big changes are made.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has decided to put off consideration of his $1.7 billion project to rebuild the city's infrastructure, amid questions about oversight of the program.
Leadfoots look out, speed cameras are coming to Chicago this summer.
Gov. Pat Quinn says the state's Medicaid system is on the verge of collapse, and to save it, billions of dollars in spending must be cut. One service that could end on the chopping block is hospice care for the poor.
At least one penguin at the St. Louis Zoo appears to be a feisty opponent of Newt Gingrich.
