Editorial: Speaker Welch’s recent behavior in Springfield raises questions around his Illinois House leadership
What is shaping up to be the most challenging year of Gov. JB Pritzker’s tenure began in Springfield with an inauspicious ...
“All Our Future Money Is Gone”: The Impossible Task of Providing Child Care in Rural Illinois
Though the governor promised to make Illinois “the best state” to raise young children, child care continues to disappear.
Hemp regulation bill stalls amid Democratic infighting
A bill that would have imposed regulations on new types of intoxicating substances derived from hemp stalled in the Illinois House Tuesday, dealing a political setback to Gov. JB Pritzker after he ...
Feud over hemp bill dominates final days of Illinois legislative session
The legislation passed and sent to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk during the General Assembly’s brief lame-duck session was ...
State slow to overhaul downstate mental health facility plagued by abuse, watchdog finds
Midway through Gov. JB Pritzker's three-year plan to relocate 123 residents from the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, the state faces "significant barriers" to fixing a troubled system, ...
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Elemental's Quinta Monroy housing was the most significant building of 2004
Years 25 Buildings series we consider the legacy of Elemental's Quinta Monroy housing, which turned a relatively little-known ...
Chicago Private Equity Firm Raises $3 Billion for New Fund
A Chicago private equity firm with ties to Barack Obama has closed on a $3 billion new fund, adding to a list of Windy City ...
Making waves on trans issues
Precious Brady Davis saw her election to the Chicago-area water board as an important step in showing voters that policy ...
Reps. Fritts, McCombie address top priorities for 2025 at joint tele-town hall
Dixon, and Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, discussed their priorities for the 2025 legislative session Monday night while answering questions from their districts' constituents during a telephone-based town ...