Illinois Budget Crisis
Top Illinois political leaders met Tuesday in Springfield for the first time since May to negotiate the five-month state budget impasse.
At the urging of political reform...
State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) announced Monday he would exit the race for Illinois comptroller.
Biss entered the race to challenge Republican incumbent Leslie Munger last spring. Shortly thereafter,...
State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) discussed changing Illinois’ flat-rate income tax to a graduated one in a town hall meeting Monday night.
Biss called the present code “idiosyncratic,” telling...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan pushed a revised pension reform bill through a House pension committee Wednesday in a near unanimous vote.
Madigan made amendments to the bill, which squeezed...
Illinois voters will decide in less than two weeks the future of a proposed amendment to the state constition regarding the threshold needed to pass pension increases.
The amendment, HJRCA 49, would...
