Gov. JB Pritzker signed his seventh annual budget, balanced as promised with spending cuts, taxes and one-time revenue boosts ...

The temperature of the country’s political climate runs hot, with protests and acts of violence breaking out across the country.

Jose Abel Garcia is a Guatemalan immigrant who says President Donald Trump's latest promise to expand deportations in ...

You know it’s a bad budget when it’s based on nearly $1 billion in tax increases and enhancements,” a Republican lawmaker said.

Although former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was expected to pay a $2. 5 million fine quickly, his time in prison ...

The $55.1 billion state spending plan signed into law Monday by Pritzker marked one of the toughest budget seasons of his ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Monday his name was not among those of Midwestern officials kept on lists by the 57-year-old man charged with assassinating the Democratic leader of the Minnesota House ...

Michael Madigan, the longest-serving legislative leader in US history, has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison over ...

The sentence, which also includes three years’ probation after his prison term and a $2.5 million fine, follows a jury’s ...

Democrats will need to sort through a pileup of potential candidates who see an opportunity to harness backlash to the Trump ...