CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday approved the state's first construction spending plan in over a decade - a $31 billion infusion expec...
AP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has rated Illinois' homeland security program among the...
AP | Posted 08.10.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is putting aside his call for an income tax increase until November. In an interview Friday with Th...
Lee Newspapers | Mike Riopell | Posted 08.10.2009 | Chicago
A group of Republicans in the Illinois House said Thursday that one of their plans to save the state money is eliminating Gov. Pat Quinn's former job...
AP | Posted 08.09.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that he plans to sign long-delayed legislation creating a huge public works program to help the...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS and DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 08.08.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced Wednesday that she's running for re-election instead of seeking higher office, a surp...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago
On the day he planned to explain $1 billion in state budget cuts, Gov. Quinn instead announced Tuesday that he is vetoing a bill funding state governm...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago
Nearly a month after the Chicago Tribune exposed the influence of political clout in the admissions process at the University of Illinois, a group of ...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 08.06.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Unable to agree with legislative leaders on how to clean up the state's budget mess, Gov. Pat Quinn is taking his case to rank-and-fil...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Pat Quinn is getting a boost from an unlikely source: former Bears coach Mike Ditka. The NFL coaching legend-- and Chicago marketing luminary-- ...
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...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 08.01.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn's veto of a makeshift budget Wednesday marks yet another round of uncertainty and frustration for Illinois ta...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 07.31.2009 | Chicago
UPDATE 7/1 Gov. Quinn's office has announced he will "take veto action." A press conference is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in Springfield. Check back fo...
AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 07.30.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The state's budget year ends Tuesday, and lawmakers are nowhere near a deal on a spending plan with Gov. Pat Quinn. Does tha...
Scott Foval | Posted 07.27.2009 | Chicago
Cuts are coming, a train wreck is about to hit, and our state officials took a two-day trip to Springfield just to sit there and do nothing.
Rep. Jack Franks | Posted 07.27.2009 | Chicago
Illinois finds itself on the brink of a man-made disaster and the same managers who drove our state into this fiscal catastrophe continue to control the levers of power. Bullying the legislature into huge tax increases will not work. Governor, stop obfuscating, get prepared and lead.
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 07.26.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn announced Thursday that 2,200 state employees could lose their jobs as he attempts to cut an additional $1 billion in s...
Chicago Sun-Times | DAVE MCKINNEY | Posted 07.26.2009 | Chicago
Sox stars Paul Konerko and Jim Thome wrote a letter to the editor to the Chicago Sun-Times and other newspapers, urging lawmakers not to allow massive...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 07.25.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois legislators adjourned Wednesday without taking action on the budget, as Gov. Pat Quinn backed away from threats to ...
AP | Posted 07.24.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD (AP) - Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes has some harsh words for the governor's handling of the budget crisis. Hynes released an open lette...
Lake Effect News | LORRAINE SWANSON | Posted 07.23.2009 | Chicago
A little birdie called us from Saturday night's IVI-IPO fundraiser at the Metropolitan Club. Seems like Ald. Joe Moore (49th Ward) tried to crash a pr...
Chicago Public Radio | Posted 07.21.2009 | Chicago
llinois Governor Pat Quinn says he's not ready to say if Guantanamo Bay detainees should be transferred to a downstate prison....
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 07.20.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn wants lawmakers to vote as soon as Wednesday on an income tax increase to help human services providers, who insist som...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.20.2009 | Chicago
The continuing saga of the Congress Plaza Hotel labor strike took a new turn Thursday, winning approval for a controversial new addition just days aft...
Chi-Town Daily News | ALEX PARKER | Posted 07.20.2009 | Chicago
If state legislators buck Gov. Pat Quinn's call for an income tax hike, the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program stands to lose millions and wo...
AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago