Durbin, Kirk Disagree On Bin Laden Photos
U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) do not agree on whether photos of the slain Osama bin Laden should have been released to the public.
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U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) do not agree on whether photos of the slain Osama bin Laden should have been released to the public.
The state Senate has passed the DREAM Act, which would put those young people within reach of such programs as College Illinois, allowing them to save for their higher education.
The beers you'll never see advertised on the Super Bowl are closer to a victory in Illinois.
The new way of building a budget in Illinois is drawing some criticism – even from people on the same side of the people putting it together.
One way or another, the budget numbers have to come together in Springfield.
A top energy forecaster says global demand will go up at least 50 percent in the next 25 years.
The deaths of two residents of a downstate Charleston group home in recent years have state lawmakers jumping into action.
A major school reform package advanced in an Illinois Senate committee in Springfield on Thursday, with an unusual coalition of lawmakers, school districts and teachers unions supporting the measure.
A couple of bills to further control the movement of guns in Illinois have failed to pass the state House.
The people in charge of state government do not see eye to eye on how to get out of the crushing financial problems facing Illinois.
A state lawmaker is again carrying the flag for universal health care in Illinois.
Whether you use prescription drugs properly or abuse them, a group of students is emphasizing that landfills and waterways are no place for the unused pills.
The way the accounting systems for Illinois government work – or don't work – has some lawmakers up in arms.
The cost of doing business is making Illinois a leader in some of the wrong ways.
Following a meeting with Gov. Pat Quinn, the chief executive officer of Caterpillar says the company is staying in Illinois.
The Illinois Secretary of Transportation is defending his department's hiring practices.
Improving education in Illinois has to start well before kindergarten, according to what a state House committee is hearing.
The debate is back on over the safety of a chemical used in food containers.
The parents of a little boy killed by a falling soccer goal are determined to see that it never happens to another child.
For the woman behind the repeal of capital punishment in Illinois, it was a big, historic effort – but not her first.
A pair of bills to allow people to smoke in Illinois casinos has made it out of a House committee.
Some bills having to do with abortion are in the Illinois House Agriculture Committee.
Organizations that help the disabled in Illinois live independently are making a push to ward off budget cuts.
Illinois State Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) is seeking a $1 per pack increase in the state cigarette tax to generate funds for a major public works program.
Illinois lawmakers are hearing pitches for more money for schools.
