A plan moving in Springfield could require the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to prioritize placing ...

There's a slate of hopeful judges, nominated by President Joe Biden, teed up for the U.S. Senate to confirm. Time to get to ...

Illinois lawmakers returned to Springfield Tuesday for the first time since May following news earlier this month that ...

"I'm calling on Gov. Pritzker to pledge to not increase taxes on Illinois families and businesses in this upcoming budget ...

Republicans confirmed judges during the final weeks of Donald Trump’s first term. But the president-elect says Democrats ...

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, urged the House Ethics Committee to “preserve and ...

An Illinois Senate committee hit pause on a bill to ban carbon sequestration injections near aquifers after more than an hour ...

Democratic senators are fast-tracking President Biden's judicial nominations before President-elect Trump takes office in ...

Leaders of the Legislature's Democratic supermajorities say they could advance additional protections for abortion rights, ...

Simon, a reform-minded southern Illinois Democrat who went on to become lieutenant governor and served for decades in Congress and the U.S. Senate, detailed how some lawmakers filed bills called ...

An Illinois trade organization has joined a legal challenge to a new law that restricts employers’ free speech rights in the ...

A report forecasting major budget deficits for the state of Illinois is getting the attention of Senate Republicans. Earlier ...