The governors of Illinois, Minnesota and New York testified Thursday before the House Oversight Committee, which has been ...

A person pretending to be a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota and killed the lawmaker’s husband in “an act of targeted political violence,” law enforcement ...

Melissa Hortman, a Democratic state representative, and her husband were fatally shot on Saturday morning. John A. Hoffman, a ...

The number of years former House Speaker Michael Madigan spent in Springfield has often been used as shorthand to explain his ...

Legislation that mandates the Illinois Department of Corrections to annually report on hospice and palliative care within its ...

In response to the new per-bet tax introduced by the legislature, the two largest online sportsbooks are charging users a per ...

The “Clean Slate” Act, which could have sealed thousands and potentially millions of nonviolent criminal records in Illinois, had bipartisan support but failed to pass in the final flurry of ...

Illinois’ latest budget misses the mark in several key areas, according to one independent nonprofit fiscal analyst. State ...

Transit agency officials in Chicagoland met this week and formally began the process of planning for next year's budget, ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan was sentenced Friday to seven and a half years in federal prison and a $2.5 million fine in his corruption case.

In February, a jury convicted Madigan, 83, of bribery conspiracy, wire fraud and other crimes. He was sentenced Friday to 7.5 ...

Judge Blakey handed down the 90-month sentence Friday at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. He also imposed three years of supervised release after his prison time ends.