State Rep. Mark Batinick thought that something was finally being done about Illinois' many longstanding issues when he heard a constitutional amendment was in the works.
While House Bill 3317 was introduced too late to change her story, Cassandra Tanner-Miller hopes the legislation will bring happier endings for other victims of domestic violence.
Another legislative session is winding down, and along with it another attempt by lawmakers to end the decades-long history of gerrymandering in Illinois.
Working in the restaurant and food industry is far from easy even when times are good. Working in the industry during a public health crisis, as countless Illinoisans did last year, is truly a test of faith and endurance.
Illinoisans are leaving their home state in droves to find more affordable taxes, better jobs and sensible public policy. Republicans are clamoring to right the ship before the state loses another congressional seat in the next decade's census.
Marty Ozinga III, Chairman of the Board of the Mokena-based concrete supplier Ozinga, a former congressional candidate and a longtime participant in Will County GOP politics, has died.
Lawmakers have a little over two months to produce a final draft of the state's new legislative districts and Republicans continue to disapprove of the Democrats proceeding with the task.
Illinois voters rejected a progressive income tax amendment that was criticized for having potentially devastating impacts on the state's taxpayers by removing the flat tax rate, skyrocket small business taxes by 47% and allow the possibility of taxing retirees.