Rep. Dan Swanson, R-Alpha, received the call from Democratic House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, earlier this month that he was tapped to head the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee.

Current state law has no provisions requiring schools to expel a student who commits sexual violence or assault against ...

Republican lawmakers put forward a proposal to expel students who sexually assault another student at school. Current Illinois law has no provisions requiring schools to expel a student who commits ...

Terri Bryant urged employees to confide in her information pertaining to undocumented inmates. “I won’t rat you out," she ...

Legislators and medical policy advocates revealed the proposal at a press conference Wednesday at the capitol in Springfield.

Residents of red counties in blue states wish they had a new political home. Also, in Florida, the Legislature is starting to stand up to Ron DeSantis.

Bryant urged employees to confide in her information pertaining to undocumented inmates. “I won’t rat you out," she wrote in ...

Beyond Tuesday’s Medicaid portal outage, Democrats fear there’s an even greater risk to the federal program that lower-income Illinoisans rely on for health care: a federal budget cut that could lead ...

Republicans in the Illinois House say the state’s current legislative map is unconstitutional and illegally favors Democrats, ...

A lawsuit filed Tuesday suggested Democrats continue to hold a supermajority in the Illinois House thanks to illegally ...