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Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich testified Thursday that he had no interest in getting campaign cash in exchange for appointing someone to President Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat in 2008.
The Democrat-controlled Illinois Senate has approved new congressional districts that try to erase Republicans election gains.
The Illinois State Senate has approved a budget that would spend more than $2 billion less than Gov. Pat Quinn proposed, but Republicans say that's not enough.
Former Streamwood police Officer James Mandarino will be on probation for the next 30 months, for beating an unarmed, kneeling man while his dashboard video camera was rolling.
Your electric bill could go up if the Illinois State Senate and Gov. Pat Quinn go along with a bill passed by the state House.
Local courts, and not a state system of arbiters, would handle workers' compensation cases if a bill awaiting state Senate action becomes law.
The re-drawing of the map is almost done in Illinois, and the state Senate is expected to vote on new Congressional lines today.
The children of immigrants, both legal and illegal, would be able to obtain private college scholarships and enroll in state savings programs under legislation approved Monday.
The Illinois House has passed proposed legislation that would pave the way for a major expansion of casino gambling throughout the state.
Chicago-area reporters are not pleased with the way government is treating a new state law that's supposed to make government more open to public scrutiny.
The Chicago City Council's powerful Finance Committee chairman is watching the debate in Springfield over expansions of casino gambling with great interest.
Rod Blagojevich was back on the stand on Friday in what turned-into a family affair as his oldest daughter Amy attended the trial, but that wasn't the only change in the courtroom. One of the 18 jury members was no longer in court.
Is Mayor Rahm Emanuel off to a good start with the Chicago police union? It didn't hurt that he attended a funeral of a fallen officer on Friday, CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports.
Rod Blagojevich was back on the stand on Friday in what turned-into a family affair as his oldest daughter Amy attended the trial, but that wasn't the only change in the courtroom. One of the 18 jury members was no longer in court.
A Illinois House committee has failed to pass a major expansion of legalized gambling.
