Quinn names tax hike lawmaker to lead agriculture agency
SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. Pat Quinn found a spot for another state lawmaker who lost an election but voted as a lame duck for last year's major income-tax hike. The Democratic...
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Lincoln was a modern campaigner, of sorts
— Illinois marks the 203rd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth on Sunday, and scholars note that the 16th president's shrewd sense of politics and knack for retail campaigning may serve...
Quinn to Obama: Illinois pressing ahead on Medicaid reforms
SPRINGFIELD — As President Barack Obama presses forward with his signature health care law, his fellow Illinois Democrats running state government have waited more than a year to win federal...
Quinn to Obama: Illinois moving ahead on Medicaid fraud crackdown
As President Barack Obama presses forward with his signature health care law, his fellow Illinois Democrats running state government have waited more than a year to win federal approval for...
Quinn to Obama: Illinois moving ahead on Medicaid fraud crackdown
As President Barack Obama presses forward with his signature health care law, his fellow Illinois Democrats running state government have waited more than a year to win federal approval for...
What cops say could be taped
SPRINGFIELD — Illinoisans would have permission to make audio recordings of police officers on duty and in a public place under a proposal that gained a measure of steam Wednesday....
Students school Quinn at Capitol
Gov. Pat Quinn likes to talk about how he's a big supporter of both school kids and the working man. But today school kids helped the working man take Quinn...
Students school Quinn at Capitol
Gov. Pat Quinn likes to talk about how he's a big supporter of both school kids and the working man. But today school kids helped the working man take Quinn...
Tax-break proposals have price tags
— Front-and-center among Gov. Pat Quinn's proposed tax breaks Wednesday was the idea of slicing the costs of heating and cooking for millions of consumers by doing away with the...
Quinn calls for cutting natural gas tax, boosting education spending in State of State speech
Gov. Pat Quinn today called for more spending on education and abolishing the natural gas utility tax in his State of the State speech. The noon address to the General...