As the clock ticks toward a midnight adjournment at the Illinois State Capitol, legislators are furiously working to pass hot topic pieces of legislation.
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House Democrats Saturday narrowly passed a measure they say will help stop people who should not have guns from obtaining a state Firearm Owner’s Identification card. But Republicans say Democrats are overreaching and making a “gun grab.”
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Fewer than 24 hours after releasing a second version of a legislative redistricting plan, Democrats advanced a plan for new legislative districts to the desk of Governor JB Pritzker on purely partisan votes.
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One of the closest aides to longtime House Speaker Michael Madigan pleaded “not guilty” Friday to charges he lied before a federal grand jury.
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After narrowly losing Republican primaries for Governor in 2010 and 2014, former State Senator Kirk Dillard could be planning a return to elective politics.
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Democrats released a second version of proposed redistricting boundaries Thursday night, which they said keeps some communities of interest together and prevents potential Republican member vs. member primaries next March.
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With less than five full days remaining in the legislative session, Senate Republicans are frustrated Democrats haven’t released spending priorities and argue Governor JB Pritzker and Democratic leaders should take cuts to GOP-supported tax programs off the table.
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Tim Mapes, one of the closest aides to former House Speaker Michael Madigan has been indicted by federal prosecutors.
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In the first hearing since releasing a draft legislative redistricting proposal Friday night, groups representing Latinos, Asians, African Americans and others called on Democrats to stop the redistricting process and wait for formal census data.
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Democrats released a redistricting plan Tuesday to redraw Illinois Supreme Court districts for the first time in more than 50 years.
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House Republican Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) called the redistricting plan “nothing less than a kindergartener’s artwork.”
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Republicans aren’t giving five star Yelp reviews to Speaker Chris Welch’s proposed legislative districts. .
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Three Senate Republicans say Governor JB Pritzker is engaging in a “shady tactic” to prevent hearings and votes on members of the state board that decides whether to release prisoners.
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House Democrats Friday night released new legislative maps that would put nearly half of Republican House members into primaries against each other.
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With just days remaining in the spring legislative session, House Democrats say they’re still trying to find a way to fill an expected $1.3 billion hole in the state budget, but Republicans say Democrats are unwilling to get their spending habits in check.
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On a party line vote Thursday, the Senate advanced a new school sexual education standard that Democrats called '‘responsible” and Republicans deemed “extreme.”
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Corinne Wood, the first female Lt. Governor in state history who bravely battled breast cancer for more than a decade, died Tuesday.
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Will Democrats redraw Supreme Court districts for the first time in 50 years?
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After waiting weeks for Senate Democrats to unveil a final ethics reform bill, Republicans complained Monday about the delay and introduced their own ethics legislation.
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If you are vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask.
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