Any hope the 12th Congressional District primary between Congressman Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro) and former State Senator Darren Bailey would turn thoughtful and policy focused was dashed Monday.
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What’s being forgotten in the Invest in Kids scholarship program debate? It’s helping kids.
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Housing migrants and helping them resettle is a costly, controversial conundrum.
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A Chicago Tribune story Monday highlighted concerns from advocates and Governor JB Pritzker’s office over the gubernatorial-appointed and Senate-confirmed Prisoner Review Board for denying too many parole applications made by longtime, mostly violent offenders.
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If we didn’t know it already, Republicans have big problems in the suburbs. Without a serious change in direction, they’re bound to keep losing up and down the ticket.
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Crystal Lake Police officer Kimberley Shipbaugh was on the stand in McHenry County Court Monday when she broke into tears.
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When word leaked this week that Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf was prepared to move his team from Chicago’s south side at the end of their current lease in 2029, it became the second professional sports franchise in Chicago trying to shake down taxpayers for a new, or majorly renovated, stadium.
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For more than a decade, Republican operatives and their candidates have doubled down on one message: all Madigan, all the time.
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Life is good for JB Pritzker, politically, at least.
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When Democrats in the General Assembly passed the first version of the so-called “SAFE-T Act” or “Pretrial Fairness Act” in the minutes before the legislature adjourned sine die in 2021, it was a document riddled with contradictions, flaws, and serious concerns about how to keep bad people off the street.
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The strategy of each of the GOP campaigns in the 12th Congressional District may be to curry favor of just one person: former President Donald Trump.
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The entry of Darren Bailey into the southern Illinois-based 12th Congressional District is a textbook example of how modern politics has become overwhelmed by personality-driven ego trips and seemingly no longer has anything to do with policy.
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It wasn’t hard to be skeptical when lawmakers passed a temporary repeal of the state’s grocery tax and froze one of the state’s taxes on gasoline was more for their political benefit and less to help struggling taxpayers.
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There’s nothing I take more seriously than the rights protected under the First Amendment. Without the first, the others after it don’t matter.
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It’s time we get serious about reigning in people and organizations that can, and do, have so much influence on state government.
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A Washington Post report Thursday set fires across Illinois’ political community, alleging a network of fake newspapers mailed for free around the state in the run up to the 2022 election coordinated content with numerous top Republican campaigns.
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Shortly after the Associated Press called the Chicago mayoral race for Brandon Johnson last night, I received a couple of texts.
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Let’s take a look at Chicago, Naperville, Joliet, Springfield, and Champaign.
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The Senate passed legislation Thursday to lift the state’s ban on new nuclear construction that has been in effect since 1987.
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Paul Vallas is the decided favorite down the stretch.
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