State Rep. Grant Wehrli (R-41) on May 31 voted against a $40 million budget package that included a hidden gem for teachers -- the removal of a 3 percent cap on end-of-career pension spiking for Illinois educators.
State Rep. Amy Grant (R-42) on May 31 voted against a $40 million budget package that included a hidden gem for teachers -- the removal of a 3 percent cap on end-of-career pension spiking for Illinois educators.
Illinois state Rep. Anne Stava-Murray (D-81) on May 28 voted for a measure that will bring sweeping changes to the state’s abortion laws.
Illinois state Rep. John Connor (D-85) on May 28 voted for a measure that will bring sweeping changes to the state’s abortion laws.
Illinois state Rep. Kathleen Willis (D-77) on May 28 voted for a measure that will bring sweeping changes to the state’s abortion laws.
State Rep. Dianne Pappas (D-Itasca) has suddenly grown silent in the simmering debate over her recently reported comments about abortion and the Reproductive Health Act bill.
A Democratic bill that would mandate changes to the way mental health is taught in Illinois has attracted nine co-sponsors and is poised for a third reading in the General Assembly.
Naperville Councilman Kevin Coyne says he has had about enough of his hometown's state representative, Anne Stava-Murray, who is a Democrat.
Kim Zoeller wishes lawmakers in Springfield doggedly pushing for a minimum wage increase would see the same big picture she does.
Rep. Grant Wehrli (R-Naperville) spoke out in opposition to a bill that would raise the minimum wage in Illinois on Wednesday during a House Labor and Commerce Committee hearing.
Jeanne Ives says that lawmakers in Springfield are focusing on all the wrong things in their attempts to curb Illinois’s rising gun violence.
Jeanne Ives, a Republican and former state representative from Wheaton, frets over the way she thinks former Gov. Bruce Rauner spent his final hours in Springfield guided by personal feelings rather than sound politics.
Former Rep. Jeanne Ives, a Republican of Wheaton, can barely count all the ways she stands in such stark opposition to the passage of Senate Bill 3531 during the legislature’s lame duck session.
Babette Holder argues what made Jeanne Ives so special as a state representative that she never fit the mold.
This week in Illinois history, learn about young Ronald Reagan's first persuasive speech, how a microbiologist discovered a third form of life, and how the state led efforts to end voter suppression schemes.