Governor Pat Quinn

Just days after thousands of protesters descended on Chicago to rally against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 15 people were arrested outside ...

Updated story As the city prepared to close three more mental health clinics Monday, Chicago mental health advocates protested outside Mayor Rahm E...

For those of us who've seen Tamms at close range, it was a welcome surprise to learn that Governor Pat Quinn proposes shuttering the prison.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been actively wading into Democratic legislative primary fights. And Emanuel did so again recently, throwing his support to Christian Mitchell. What will Rahm's support reel in that Mitchell lacks?

Women and girls are already receiving such a wafer-thin slice of the pie, and there's no room to trim it further without creating a domino effect that will hurt women, their families and their communities.

In Springfield Rahm was on roll. Rahm Emanuel put his formidable political persuasive powers behind doable deals. Springfield morphed from Springfiend to Springfriend for a Chicago mayor. Until now.

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — None of the 79 Sears and Kmart stores that Sears Holdings Corp. announced would close are in Illinois. The Hoffman Esta...

As we reflect on this year's events, let's celebrate women's progress, recognize what needs to be improved and take the next steps -- together -- into the New Year.

A $646 million state capital investment grant announced Thursday will be combined with other state, local and federal funds to invest $1 billion in re...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Don't look for quick action to reduce Illinois' huge backlog of unpaid bills, despite universal agreement among state leaders tha...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Drowning in deficits, Illinois has turned to a deliberate policy of not paying billions of dollars in bills for months at a time,...

The thinking among Springfield insiders up until a few weeks had been that the legislature was likely to override Governor Quinn's veto of ComEd's "Smart Grid" bill. That was before the Occupy Wall Street movement ignited.

Gov. Pat Quinn announced plans Thursday to close seven state agencies, which, along with other cuts, will eliminate more than 1,900 jobs in an effort ...

If Gov. Quinn ever wonders why the public find his approach to governing to be incoherent and frustrating, he needs only to consider his recent whiplash-inducing turn on behavioral health care policy.

A bill signed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on Saturday will create a commission to research the disparities facing African-Americans in the areas of...

Move over, Casimir Pulaski. Illinois has two new honorees of a newly-christened statewide holiday, coming up this Friday: Martin Sheen and Emilio Este...

It's a $30 million "oops." It's an "oops" that can only be fixed by the Illinois Senate within the next 24 hours. How's that for a political thriller plot? Except it's not a plot line. It's true.

Unlike our neighbors in Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states, Illinois education stakeholders worked together to craft an aggressive bill that makes our state the nation's new leader in education reform.

To combat the image of shriveled gubernatorial relevance, Quinn last week held a combative press conference the day after the legislature adjourned, criticizing a bill to dramatically expand Illinois gaming as "excessive."

It's now up to Gov. Pat Quinn to decide whether the state gets more casinos to help jumpstart the local economy. Quinn told reporters the bill, which passed the state Senate on Tuesday, was "excessive."

CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says his state will pull out of a controversial federal program that automatically checks the immigration stat...

In Illinois, on the one-year anniversary of the new federal health law, Governor Pat Quinn has been blazing forward to implement its provisions.

Many Illinois Republican lawmakers, like State Senator Matt Murphy, a GOP budget "expert," are fond of loudly dismissing Illinois budget cuts made by Pat Quinn as nothing but a mere budgetary mirage.