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Gov. Bruce Rauner attends a bill signing Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017.

Republican lawmakers sue to block abortion law Rauner approved

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Several groups opposed to abortion rights and Republican state lawmakers filed a lawsuit Thursday in an attempt to block a law expanding the use of taxpayer money to fund abortions...

Democratic governor candidates J.B. Pritzker, left, and Chris Kennedy released their income tax returns Monday.

Pritzker listed $15 million in taxable income last year, Kennedy $1.2 million

May 15, 2019 at 4:37 p.m.

Billionaire Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker reported nearly $15 million in state taxable income last year while rival Chris Kennedy listed $1.2 million, according to partial income tax returns both...

Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks during a bill signing on Aug. 24, 2017.

Rauner signs lawmakers’ sexual harassment bills but says they should have done more

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

A week after lawmakers tried to address complaints of sexual harassment in Illinois politics, Gov. Bruce Rauner joined skeptics who don’t think they did enough to ensure that complaints will...

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his Justice Department are threatening to pull funding over Gov. Bruce Rauner signing an immigration bill, the Trust Act, into law.

Justice Department: New Illinois immigration law could endanger grant funding

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

The U.S. Department of Justice is threatening to pull millions of dollars in funding from Illinois after Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner signed an immigration measure into law this summer. Known...

Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks at the Governor's Day rally at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Aug. 16, 2017.

Back on the trail, Rauner recycles campaign themes with Madigan attacks

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner hit the road Monday as he asks voters for a second term in office, recycling many of the same ideas he’s long pushed with little success. The...

Gov. Bruce Rauner holds a press conference at the State of Illinois Building in Chicago on Sept. 28, 2017.

Rauner suffers more veto losses than usual after fellow Republicans vote for more overrides

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner emerged from the General Assembly’s fall session bruised by more than a dozen defeats made possible by rank-and-file lawmakers in his own party, but he survived...

Republican State Sen. Karen McConnaughay, at the Illinois State Capitol building in Springfield on Nov. 7, said Thursday about the newly minted Senate Women's Caucus: "Our collective voice is a stronger, louder voice when we are more formal about it."

Illinois’ women senators declare solidarity with new caucus, then go opposite ways on wage bill

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

In the wake of a sexual harassment scandal that’s engulfed the Capitol, a bipartisan group of female senators formalized their own group on Thursday with the overarching goal of working...

Illinois state Comptroller Susana Mendoza, accompanied by State Sen. Andy Manar, D-Bunker Hill, speaks to reporters at the state Capitol in Springfield Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. Mendoza spoke after the Senate voted to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of a "debt-transparency act."

Lawmakers get sexual harassment prevention training: If you wouldn’t say it in front of grandma, don’t

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

State lawmakers began sexual harassment prevention training Wednesday, their latest step in a push to change a decades long culture at the Capitol where women have complained of being objectified,...

Sen. Ira Silverstein, D-Chicago, sits on the floor of the Senate on Nov. 7, 2017, at the Illinois Capitol in Springfield. (Erin Hooley/baiduhai)

Lawmaker tells of being objectified by colleague as sexual harassment bills pass in Springfield

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

Lawmakers on Tuesday quickly approved a flurry of bills aimed at curbing sexual harassment in Illinois politics amid warnings that the rushed effort alone isn’t enough to correct a decadeslong...

Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed union-backed legislation that would have prevented local governments from establishing right-to-work zone. On Tuesday, the Illinois House failed to override his veto.

Rauner narrowly beats back union push to ban right-to-work zones

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Tuesday narrowly fended off a major loss for the second time in as many weeks when the Illinois House failed to override his veto of union-backed...

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