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SPRINGFIELD (The Center Square) -- More Illinois House Democrats have said they won’t support Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan for another term. Every two years, the Illinois House votes for speaker; ...

LOUISVILLE, Ill. (Heartland Newsfeed) -- An Illinois state representative was granted a temporary restraining order Monday against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's shelter-in-place order extension. Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) filed the ...

I wrote a Letter to the Editor which was sent out to roughly a dozen publications over the weekend, but only one took the time to publish it. I feel ...

As a new General Assembly legislative session convenes this week, the same political chaos continues. The newly-established Democratic super-majority continued to elect the same corrupt leadership in Michael Madigan and ...

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois News Network) -- For the 18th time in the past 36 years, members of the Illinois House selected state Rep. Michael Madigan to serve as speaker, giving the Chicago ...

CHICAGO (Heartland Newsfeed) – Governor Bruce Rauner framed his legislative agenda Monday for the upcoming session of the Illinois General Assembly around two key imperatives: a truly balanced, full-year FY19 ...

(Illinois News Network) -- Everyone who watches even just a bit of TV or who checks their mailboxes every now and then knows there's an election around the corner. The dubious ...

BURR RIDGE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Mickey Straub says Gov. Bruce Rauner is out. “The way I see it, the governor has three strikes,” Straub said in a recent interview. “For ...

BURR RIDGE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Illinois is slowly becoming unrecognizable in the eyes of Mickey Straub. “We’re losing at least one person every eight minutes now that’s moving out of ...

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois Policy Institute) -- The most likely driver is pretty obvious to most Illinoisans: the rage of constituents. Thirty state lawmakers in the 100th General Assembly will not be ...