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The Illinois State Senate has passed a bill attempting to make things easier for more sellers.
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The Illinois State Senate has passed a bill attempting to make things easier for more sellers.
The beers you'll never see advertised on the Super Bowl are closer to a victory in Illinois.
If a bill now before the Illinois Senate is passed, private consortiums could soon be battling for the right to build a bullet train that could link downtown Chicago with O'Hare and Rockford International Airport.
The Illinois House of Representatives has wrapped up its statewide redistricting hearings, and at least one conclusion is apparent – those testifying want more hearings scheduled after the map is drawn.
Tough cemetery regulations imposed last year after the Burr Oak scandal have proved burdensome for many Illinois cemeteries, leading lawmakers to consider rolling them back.
A bill that has passed the Illinois Senate is being called a boon to taxpayers by some, but others denounced it as a potentially ruinous measure for local government and transit agencies.
Both Republicans and Democrats agree that workers compensation reform is a serious issue, but a proposal to change the system has failed to pass the state Senate.
Illinois Senate Republicans have unveiled another initiative they say will help fix the state budget, by making Illinois a more business friendly environment.
The Illinois State Senate has unanimously approved an education reform bill that would lengthen the school day and make changes to how teachers are rewarded or disciplined.
Some Illinois lawmakers want to make sure the film industry keeps coming back to Illinois, for the next decade, at least.
Illinois senators have signed off on a proposal to allow voters to decide if the state should combine the two offices that handle state finances.
A proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in Illinois has been assigned to an executive subcommittee with no members, and gay rights activists say it's as good as dead.
Illinois lawmakers have begun moving forward with an effort to lift the state's smoking ban at riverboat casinos located near other states without smoking bans.
Indiana Republicans are looking at some changes in state law to deal with democrats who have been hiding out in Illinois for about a month to deny the state House of Representatives a quorum.
In a surprise move, Senate President John Cullerton Wednesday took steps to gut the controversial 2009 state law that authorized video gambling machines in bars and restaurants throughout the state, the Sun-Times is reporting.
A state representative from the West Side will be sworn in tomorrow to replace State Sen. Rickey Hendon, who resigned last month.
Scott Lee Cohen can't get the political bug out of his system.
The proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from state employees may have passed the Wisconsin senate, but the battle is far from over.
University presidents have begun their annual trek to Springfield to ask lawmakers for money for the next fiscal year.
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) says cutting pension benefits for current state employees is, in his words, "clearly unconstitutional."
Illinois Senate Republicans have vowed to block any plans to borrow money to pay the state's overdue bills.
A group of Illinois Senate Democrats has introduced a proposal that would gradually raise the state's minimum wage to more than $10 an hour, the highest minimum wage in the nation.
Not everybody likes the idea of a state police director who's never been a cop, and there is still no official action on the man who remains "acting director."
The acting director of the Illinois State Police will soon get the job full-time, as state lawmakers have missed their chance to block his appointment.
Gov Pat Quinn said Wednesday that 38 people he appointed to state jobs would continue working, even though Senate President John Cullerton said they should lose their jobs because lawmakers never signed off.
