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With time running out, the Illinois House late tonight approved a measure that for the first time would put major restrictions on how politicians pay ...
David Ormsby | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
A few weeks ago, questions began to bubble on whether Hynes would or should drop out of the race against Quinn. The governor was on a roll. He was piling up union endorsements. No more.
Daily Herald | Joseph Ryan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
Nearly $11 million was spent in just 10 suburban races for statehouse seats last year, as Republicans and Democrats slammed each other in glossy maile...
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago
In his inaugural speech as Illinois Republican Party chairman last week, Patrick Brady took shots at Democratic U.S. Senate front-runner Alexi Giannou...
Wall Street Journal | DOUGLAS BELKIN | Posted 10.09.2009 | Chicago
Nearly a year after former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested and accused of running state government as a criminal enterprise, legislators ha...
Paras Bhayani | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
Pity Todd Stroger, the embattled Cook County Board chief who, having served the machine faithfully, is now being tossed under the bus as voters turn their ire on tax-happy politicians.
Chicago Sun-Times | CHRIS FUSCO and TIM NOVAK | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago
Over the past nine years, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's law firm has made $171,000 by seeking property tax breaks for developers who get st...
David Ormsby | Posted 08.20.2009 | Chicago
Whatever the human services spending percentage may be, Quinn's real -- and thankless -- job is to cut the budget. A lot.
David Ormsby | Posted 08.16.2009 | Chicago
The unbalanced budget "avoids a tax increase," Minority Leader Radogno said. It also avoids any sign of real leadership--an observation Radogno left unsaid.
David Ormsby | Posted 08.14.2009 | Chicago
"There are many ways to get to heaven," Quinn said after another change in budget plans. But hundreds of Illinois human service providers on the brink of financial apocalypse are fretting over landing in much, much, warmer climes.
Chicago Sun-Times | Tim Novak | Posted 08.04.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Quinn is bypassing House Speaker Michael Madigan and other legislative leaders and appealing directly to lawmakers in hopes of getting his propos...
David Ormsby | Posted 08.01.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Quinn vetoed the only budget plan on the table. But that does not lessen the confusion, much of which the governor has bred.
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- Illinois lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Tuesday searching for some way to fill a $9.2 billion hole in the state budget. The...
AP | Posted 07.10.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn and top lawmakers are headed into another round of budget negotiations amid dire warnings of massive service cuts. Qui...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 07.05.2009 | Chicago
[T]he national Republican Party is up to something at City Hall, where it has formally asked dozens of city departments to turn over copies of any com...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 07.05.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- An idea to raise the state income tax took a back seat when Gov. Pat Quinn and legislative leaders met Thursday to continue negotiatin...
Elizabeth Brackett | Posted 06.28.2009 | Chicago
Standing in the governor's office, toe to toe with Blagojevich, Jesse White fumed, "Governor, for whatever you think of [former governor] George Ryan... I've known him for thirty years. He never lied to me once. You've lied to me 15 times in six months."
David Ormsby | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago
The Quinn episode exposed the inevitable collision between a reformer's principles and the practical politics of an election system that relies on private dough to finance the campaign beast.
State Journal-Register | Doug Finke | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago
Efforts to "fumigate" state government are being scaled back and now would only affect about 700 people, House Speaker Michael Madigan said today....
Chicago Sun-Times | JORDAN WILSON, TIM NOVAK and LISA DONOVAN | Posted 06.18.2009 | Chicago
There is no "Madigan Electric" listed in the Chicago phone book. But maybe that's what they should call the place you call if your city streetlight go...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Pat Quinn is backing away from Speaker Michael Madigan's broad plan to "fumigate" the government's ranks with job cuts, the State Journal-Registe...
Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn | Posted 06.14.2009 | Chicago
Who shoved Illinois Senate Bill 1868 into the grave? It proposes a very simple, very sensible and very timely reform to the state law governing counti...
AP | Posted 06.08.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- After 100 days on the job, Gov. Pat Quinn knows the next three weeks could matter the most. That's how long Quinn has before the legi...
AP | Posted 06.07.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan wants to "fumigate" state government by firing thousands of people who were hired by ...
CBS 2 | Posted 06.05.2009 | Chicago
Earlier Tuesday, sources told CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery about a new push to expand gambling across the state, but House Speaker Michael Mad...
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Chicago Tribune | Ray Long and Monique Garcia | Posted 10.30.2009 | Chicago