Monique Garcia

Election-year pressure building on the state legislature to end a near year-long impasse with the governor turned into anger at the Statehouse on Thursday, the animus crossing political parties and...

For weeks, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has positioned himself as the champion of a "grand bargain" to end the historic 11-month budget stalemate, offering vague optimism that rank-and-file lawmakers in...

As Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner continued his vague calls for compromise Monday, House Democrats approved a measure to require his administration to give 30 days' notice before it could cancel...

With a broader budget deal unlikely to come until after the November election, if even then, the biggest remaining question for the last week of the spring session is whether...

House lawmakers sent Gov. Bruce Rauner legislation on Wednesday to decriminalize marijuana across Illinois, meaning people caught with small amounts of marijuana would be fined instead of receiving jail time....

Political posturing over the state budget stalemate rolled on at the Capitol on Tuesday, as both Democratic and Republican legislative leaders emerged from a rare closed-door meeting with Gov. Bruce...

With state government drowning in red ink and some social service agencies on the verge of collapse, a group of rank-and-file lawmakers is pitching an income tax increase, spending cuts...

House lawmakers advanced legislation Wednesday that would pump roughly $700 million into the state's network of social service providers, a stopgap plan aimed at curbing layoffs and closures as agencies...

Democrats in the Senate pushed through legislation Tuesday that would change how the state divvies up dollars among local school districts, a move Republicans blasted as a bailout for cash-strapped...

Voters will get a chance to weigh in on a proposed change to the Illinois Constitution that would prevent cash-strapped state government from raiding funds intended to be used on...