Springfield News
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The state of Illinois on Thursday agreed to a consent decree that will include court monitor to oversee the complete overhaul of the way in which 40,000 state prisoners receive health care while incarcerated.
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Just before the New Year, House GOP Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) transferred $100,000 from his own campaign account to the House Republican Organization on Dec. 31, rounding out a tough year for his party and his caucus. -
State Rep. Dan Burke (D-Chicago) resigned from the Illinois House on Sunday, making him the latest lawmaker to quit between Election Day and the two days of Lame Duck session scheduled for next week.
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Election years are typically not the time for lawmakers to take up major bills, and 2018 was for the most part no exception to that rule of politics.
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Democrat JB Pritzker and Gov. Bruce Rauner face off in a Sun-Times editorial board debate on Oct. 9, 2018.
Gov. Bruce Rauner and JB Prizker did not agree on much during this year’s election.
But they both warned voters that the contest was the “most important election of [their] lifetime[s].” -
Between fewer births, a slight uptick in deaths and 114,154 Illinois residents leaving the state last year, the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday announced that Illinois had netted a loss of 45,116 people in 2018 — a figure greater even than the number of students enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Recommended legislative inspector general Carol Pope, left, and acting part-time legislative inspector general Julie Porter.
Illinois is set to have a full-time Legislative Inspector General for the first time in five years. -
The decision on Friday by a Texas federal judge to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional after Congress stripped the law of its requirement that everyone buy insurance will take months — or even years — before it reaches the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Illinois cities with home rule powers and wealthier residents are doing better on funding pensions than their smaller, less rich neighbors, according to a new report out Friday from credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service, but Moody’s warned that few of Illinois’ municipal pension funds are ready to withstand another recession.
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Secretary of State Jesse White speaks to reporters outside of the Democratic Chairs' Breakfast in Springfield on Aug. 17, 2017.
Advocates for automatic voter registration in Illinois took the first step toward legal action against Secretary of State Jesse White Thursday, sending his office a letter alleging White’s office is again delaying full implementation of the law signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner last year, and incorrectly implementing the first phases of the measure.
