If lllinois state employees end up going on strike, they could be risking more than their paychecks: They could lose their jobs, a public policy research group said recently.

Stressing that Illinois’ insurance marketplace remains both competitive and ethical, the Illinois Policy Institute took issue with a series of claims made recently by Chicago-based personal injury lawyer Christopher Hurley.

Illinois needs to cut back on spending and not even think about raising taxes, which are already too high, a majority of state residents said in a recent survey.

What's good for the populace must not be good for the politicians, the Illinois Republican Party said recently in response to Attorney General Lisa Madigan's apparent willingness to give in to a judge's decision on elected officials' paychecks.

In retrospect, frequenting one gas station might not have been the best choice for recently deposed Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino, whose upcoming complaint hearings were confirmed this week by the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW) Illinois Leaks website.

Several Illinois publications have taken Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza to task recently for backpedaling on a pledge to pay elected officials’ salaries only after fulfilling commitments to others owed money by the state.

Most people would agree that public officials should be seen among the public, but State Comptroller Susana Mendoza might have puhed her luck after being spotted in a $32,000 SUV recently.

An upcoming Democrat plan expected to focus on five elements -- campaign finance, criminal justice, education funds, health care and budget matters – seems to have overlooked two things that are critical to healing Illinois: property taxes and jobs, the Illinois GOP said on Wednesday.

Hoping to open some legislative eyes, Crain’s Chicago Business recently published a piece by Rich Miller, published of daily political newsletter Capital Fax, that weighed in on Illinois’ budget problem — now over two years in the making — from the perspective of one beleaguered mother of a very sick baby.

The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce is among the top 1 percent of chambers in the United States, earning a five-star accreditation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently.

A conservative group known as Yes I'm Right is blasting pending Illinois legislation it says gives the state too much power to revoke citizens' Second Amendment rights.

To thwart potential economic issues for union workers in the face of a possible impending large-scale AFSCME strike, Governor Bruce Rauner recently launched a website intended to aid laborers should they forfeit their current jobs.

Making ends meet in the Prairie State is no walk in the park, according to a recent WalletHub analysis that said Illinois' combination of sales, property and income taxes is the nation’s highest.

Billionaire JB Pritzker has raised the stakes in the Illinois governor's race, establishing a panel to look into a possible run to oust Bruce Rauner.

Illinois lawmakers are using a seemingly surreptitious way to give themselves pay raises: creating new and useless committees for which they are automatically paid an extra $10,326 as chairmen, a Chicago-based think tank is arguing.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is calling for a blitz against bills that it says would sharply curtail legal firearms possession that will be presented in judiciary hearings in the Illinois General Assembly today.

Andy Shaw says that although term limits have not proven to be effective at addressing systemic political problems, if that's what the people of Illinois want, it's what they should get.

Reckoning that “for every article we publish, there are at least 5 more” potential stories delving into government issues, Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW) recently recapped what it considered some of Illinois’ most salient legal woes.

The consumer advocacy group Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW) has accused the Chatham village clerk of several violations, including tampering with a mayoral candidate's application papers, and is asking for his immediate resignation, Illinois Leaks reported recently.

Noting that “no one forced them to make that choice,” Illinois GOP spokesman Steven Yaffe recently pointed out that House Democrats need look no further than the nearest mirror for answers to their voting choices.