Rep. Dan Swanson, R-Alpha, received the call from Democratic House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, earlier this month that he was tapped to head the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee.

Current state law has no provisions requiring schools to expel a student who commits sexual violence or assault against ...

Republican lawmakers put forward a proposal to expel students who sexually assault another student at school. Current Illinois law has no provisions requiring schools to expel a student who commits ...

With prescription drug costs soaring, Illinois lawmakers announced legislation this week reviving efforts to create a ...

Residents of red counties in blue states wish they had a new political home. Also, in Florida, the Legislature is starting to stand up to Ron DeSantis.

Bryant urged employees to confide in her information pertaining to undocumented inmates. “I won’t rat you out," she wrote in ...

Beyond Tuesday’s Medicaid portal outage, Democrats fear there’s an even greater risk to the federal program that lower-income Illinoisans rely on for health care: a federal budget cut that could lead ...

Republicans in the Illinois House say the state’s current legislative map is unconstitutional and illegally favors Democrats, ...

The lawsuit comes after House Republicans failed to gain seats in the two election cycles since a new map was drawn in 2021 ...

The top Republican in the Illinois House of Representatives sued to invalidate the chamber’s Democratic-approved district map ...