State Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a motion yesterday asking the court to dissolve the preliminary injunction that ordered state worker paychecks to continue while the Illinois budget was at an impasse.
The BossMadigan.com website has featured another Democratic member.
Without the help of Republicans, Senate Democrats voted Tuesday to fix the budget by raising the Illinois income tax and expanding the sales tax.
The Illinois Republican Party is urging residents of House Districts 46, 56 and 84 to call their representatives and voice their opposition to a budget based on tax hikes passed by Senate Democrats on Tuesday.
All of the Democrats hoping to unseat Gov. Bruce Rauner in 2018 are backing Speaker of the House Michael Madigan's budget goal of raising taxes rather than enacting reforms, a Madigan spokesman told the Chicago Tribune recently.
Democratic House candidate Val Montgomery was indicted by a grand jury for felony forgery in 2007, according to court documents posted on a House Republican Organization website.
The We Are Republicans Toastmasters next meeting is scheduled for Nov. 26 at Lisle/Woodridge Fire District at 7 p.m.
A bombshell new report that soon-to-be ex-Gov. Bruce Rauner bailed out on his reelection campaign has some Republicans fuming.
State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) thinks it is time Republican lawmakers have a meeting of the minds to have any chance of saving themselves from themselves.
Newly elected state Rep. Amy Grant (R-Wheaton) is front-and-center among a group of 43 Republican lawmakers that have filed a resolution in opposition to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s progressive-tax proposal.
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As Sen. Thomas Cullerton’s (D-Villa Park) trial comes to a close, Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider is reiterating his call for Cullerton’s resignation.
A political fundraiser in Illinois last week was riddled with criticism by both Republicans and Democrats.
Jeanne Ives, a candidate for Illinois' 6th District, said raising taxes won't fix the state’s financial struggles.
Former Illinois House Rep. Jeanne Ives, the Republican candidate for the state’s 6th Congressional District, is accusing incumbent Democrat Sean Casten of engaging in sexism after political signs were defaced with vulgar sexual slurs.
The Illinois GOP is commending the DuPage County Clerk for quickly addressing a glitch with the county’s voting machines.