A charitable organization supporting a local school district will host a basketball tournament to benefit students as well as to pay homage to a departed colleague.
With the so-called 'Grand Bargain' compromise budget deal expected on the Senate floor next week, an Illinois House representative from Wheaton says it's harder to get people to understand an alternative proposal than it is to get it to the House floor.
Four high schools from the Tri-City area are leaving the Upstate Eight Conference to join a new eight-team athletic conference.
The time is ripe for GOP legislators in Springfield to unite behind the party's agenda for reform, the newly named assistant House Republican Conference leader, a lawmaker from Lombard, said during a recent interview.
GLEN ELLYN – Heidi Holan, who is vying to represent the 46th District in the Illinois House, is one of 16 GOP state legislative candidates backing a proposed bill that would allow Chicago voters to recall Mayor Rahm Emanuel.