Something needs to be done about the LaSalle COVID-19 outbreak last fall that claimed the lives of 36 veterans, and state Rep. Mike Murphy feels the reform should start in the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs.
Nonpartisan map advocates have lost another battle in Springfield where Democratic lawmakers are moving forward with politically-driven legislative maps despite the state's long history of gerrymandering.
State Rep. Tim Butler (R-Springfield) was one of several Republican lawmakers to comment on the staggering drop in Illinois population that revoked one of the state's U.S. Congress seats and has many debating why Illinoisans are departing from their home states by the tens of thousands each year.
Illinois was not in the best of financial shape going into the COVID-19 pandemic, but the state's cash crisis has only gotten worse, alarming many lawmakers.
The state's new legislative districts must be on the governor's desk in a little over two months, but the remapping process has been anything but smooth this decade around.
The partial 2020 U.S. Census data released this week was bad news to many Illinois lawmakers who fear that the lost congressional seat as a result of the state's population decline will cost the Prairie State bargaining power in Washington.
Illinois lawmakers are at war over the responsibility of redistricting the state's legislative districts, a task that must be done every 10 years and believed by state Republicans to be best handled by an independent committee of Illinois residents and not politicians.
Politics, government, history and architecture enthusiasts are encouraged to pay a visit to the Illinois Capitol this year while the general assembly is in session to check out the historical Statehouse and see Illinois legislators in action.
Illinois voters rejected a progressive income tax amendment that was criticized for having potentially devastating impacts on the state's taxpayers by removing the flat tax rate, skyrocket small business taxes by 47% and allow the possibility of taxing retirees.