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A Tribune analysis of available state data shows that in the year since the Highland Park mass shooting, there has been greater use of state laws intended to prevent people with troubled backgrounds from having firearms. → Read More
Gov. J.B. Pritkzer defended himself against rebukes from Latino elected officials and others critics over his decision to close enrollment for many people in a health care program for undocumented immigrants. → Read More
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a $50.4 billion state budget that boosts funding for education from preschool through college, but was also forced to to dial back pay raises for lawmakers and other state officials so that the hikes comply with state law. → Read More
After a budget process that went into overtime amid differences over spending priorities among Democrats, Illinois House gives final approval to $50.6 billion budget. → Read More
Illinois lawmakers, under pressure to act on ethics reform, unanimously passed a measure seeking to curb abuses tied to the right light camera industry. → Read More
The Illinois Senate was poised for a vote late Thursday on a $50.6 billion state spending plan that was an altered version of what Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the state legislature’s Democratic leaders presented as a done deal a day earlier. → Read More
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the leaders of the Illinois legislature announced that they have reached a deal on a roughly $50 billion state budget, → Read More
The failure of the Illinois legislature to enact a budget by its self-appointed deadline points to stresses within the state’s one-party, big-tent Democratic rule. → Read More
The spiraling costs of a Medicaid-style healthcare program for immigrants is posing a significant roadblock to finalizing a state budget in Illinois, where lawmakers will miss a self-imposed Friday deadline. → Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request from a Naperville gun store owner to block a city ordinance and and Illinois law banning the sale of certain high-powered firearms and high-capacity ammunition magazines. → Read More
The Illinois General Assembly heads into the final scheduled week of its spring session facing unresolved issues from the budget to a proposal to help the Chicago Bears move to the suburbs. → Read More
With a week to go in the spring legislative session, another bill aimed at helping the Bears move to Arlington Heights has been filed in Springfield. → Read More
State and federal governments are changing requirements related to the illness → Read More
A group of Republican state lawmakers say a lack of guidance from the Illinois attorney general’s office after a federal judge put a hold hold on the state's gun ban has left some residents in legal jeopardy. → Read More
The financial pressure is exposing tensions between Democrats’ open-arms stance on immigration and the limited resources available in a state that has only recently begun to stabilize its chronically shaky finances. → Read More
The ruling comes just days after a counterpart in Chicago upheld the ban on many higher-powered firearms and large-capacity magazines. → Read More
Tickets to games and events at the Chicago Bears’ proposed Arlington Heights development would come with a $3-per-person tax under new legislation that seeks to jump-start stalled talks over state assistance for the project. → Read More
Chicago must reinstate city employees who were fired for refusing to comply with Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and rescind the requirement, a state administrative law judge has ruled. → Read More
Conservative slates appeared to be defeated in Oswego, Barrington and elsewhere but some candidates in other suburbs scored victories. → Read More
School boards have become targets of both the ire and political ambitions of conservatives arguing schools have been overtaken by liberal agendas. → Read More